Donato Giovannelli is a EON Research Fellow at the Earth-Life Science Institute in Tokyo and at the Institute of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Rutgers University, USA. He is also a guest scientist at the Institute of Marine Science CNR-ISMAR, Ancona and a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, USA. Co-founder of the nanotechnology startup Nano-Tech (@italnanotech) and the biotech startup Cypress Biotechnology, Donato writes about science, entrepreneurship and exploration. Follow him on twitter at @d_giovannelli