Heather Newman

Heather Newman is a scientist, entrepreneur, and ocean enthusiast. She has degrees in Biophysics from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco, where her research focused primarily on protein structure and function in cellular lipid accumulation. She published in several peer reviewed journals about this research and helped secure a multi-million dollar NIH grant for the work. She later took a hiatus from science to work in the music industry, where she became a business owner and band manager. The rising climate crisis and her lifelong passion for the ocean have led her back to science with a focus on sustainability, marine biology, and the blue economy, where she’s now involved in research, teaching, and consulting. In addition to her passion for the ocean, science, and travel, Heather loves astrophysics, and offers science talks on a range of topics for widely varied audiences.