Rachel Lance

Rachel Lance likes to disassemble things. Luckily, as she approached adulthood, she realized that could be a career. She is now an injury biomechanist with a PhD in biomedical engineering, and she spends her days at the office studying the various ways that the machine of the human body can be injured or break down. Dr. Lance is an Assistant Consulting Professor at the Duke University Center for Hyperbaric Medicine & Environmental Physiology, where she researches the various ways that human beings are affected and injured by extreme environments. She is a self-proclaimed giant nerd who loves classic cars, the chemistry of baking, and medical history. Rachel loves medical and scientific non-fiction literature, and she enjoys writing because it lets her share with other people the joy she finds in using science to answer questions about the world.