Tobias Rees is founding director of the Transformations of the Human program at the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles, Reid Hoffman professor at The New School in New York, and a fellow at the Canadian Institute For Advanced Research. Previously Tobias held positions at the University of Zurich, Switzerland and at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where he served as William Dawson chair. He holds degrees in philosophy, anthropology, and neurobiology.Tobias is a global expert on the history of thought, specifically on how the categories that silently structure our ways of thinking and action have emerged and changed over time. His work focuses on how events reconfigure or render obsolete the categories of the human, nature, and technology.