Lauren Ross is a Dean’s Professor in Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine. Her research concerns causal reasoning and explanation in the life sciences, including, neuroscience, biology, medicine, and the social sciences. Her work examines different forms of scientific explanation and different types of causal systems in the life sciences. Ross’ research has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, a Humboldt Experienced Researcher Fellowship, John Templeton Foundation Grants, and an Editor’s Choice Award at The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. Recent publications include a paper on “Causation in Neuroscience: Keeping Mechanism Meaningful” with Dani Bassett in Nature Reviews Neuroscience and a book on Explanation in Biology (Cambridge University Press: Elements Series).