Joanna Masel is a Professor in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. Professor Masel’s research focuses on evolvability, especially models that explicitly capture mechanistic constraints — whether from biochemistry, genetics, cellular biology, physiology, or ecology — and work out their evolutionary consequences. Her current interests include, more specifically, the robustness and evolvability of biological systems, the origins of coding sequences from non-coding ancestors, and the tension between relative and absolute competitions in evolution, ecology, and economics. She is the author of Bypass Wall Street: A Biologist’s Guide to the Rat Race.