Azim Shariff is an Associate Professor and Chair of Moral Psychology at the University of British Columbia, where he directs the Centre for Applied Moral Psychology. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto and doctorate from the University of British Columbia. His research on morality, religion, and technology has appeared in top academic journals such as Science, Nature, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He has written about this work for The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Scientific American, and has spoken at the Aspen Ideas Festival and World Science Festival in New York.