Terry D. Johnson has a master's degree in chemical engineering from MIT and is currently a Senior Instructional Professor of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. He is an emeritus Teaching Professor of Bioengineering at UC Berkeley. Throughout his career, he has strived to give students the tools that they will need to repair him as he grows old(er).

Terry has taught courses in a wide range of subjects, displaying a versatility that has prevented him from achieving any actual expertise. In 2010 he received the Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Teaching, and was one of the recipients of Berkeley's 2013 Distinguished Teaching Awards. He has helped to invent some stuff related to engineering human tissues and dyeing blue jeans sustainably, and is co-author of the popular science book How to Defeat Your Own Clone. He also has a species of African shrew tick named after him.

When he is not generating PowerPoint slides, he can be found giving talks and panels at events like The Bad Ad Hoc Hypothesis Festival, Nerd Nite, Eureka! Science Comedy, Wondercon, and Silicon Valley Comic-con. A few examples can be found below.

If exhaustive detail is your thing, he also has an academic CV.