Jordan Bimm is Assistant Instructional Professor of Science Communication and Public Discourse at the University of Chicago. Originally from Toronto, Canada, he is a historian of science who specializes in the cultural and communicational dimensions of search for life beyond Earth. His work has been published in academic journals including Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (HSNS), Social Studies of Science (SSS), Technology and Culture, and Astrobiology, and popularized in The New York Times, Scientific American, and The Atlantic. His research has won the Sacknoff Prize for Space History, the Adams Center Prize for Cold War History, the History of Science Society’s NASA Fellowship, a Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Fellowship at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, and the David Edge Prize for Social Studies of Science. In 2023 he was selected as a NASA Astrobiology Program and American Philosophical Society Lewis and Clark Fund Field Scholar. At the University of Chicago, he develops and teaches the core courses of the Minor Program in Science Communication and Public Discourse (SCPD), and directs the Science Communication Research Fellows program. He recently served as co-lead organizer for the NASA Astrobiology Program-supported workshop Communicating Discoveries in the Search for Life in the Universe (CDSLU), and a panelist on the NASA Astrobiology Program's Decadal Research and Exploration Strategy (DARES) Task Force 1.