Welcome to another Nature talks episode  THIS NATURE TALK WE ARE  WITH KATIE & ERFAN FIROUZI!  An academic award-winning evolutionary biologist studying the adaptations of Southern Ocean Penguins to extreme and rapidly changing environments as part of the 2020 NERC GW4+ DTP cohort. Expertise in areas such as population genetics, bioinformatics, data analysis, evolutionary ecology, and programming. Currently working on a multidisciplinary project with aspects of wildlife parasitology, climate change biology, and transcriptomics. Ph.D. tutor at The Brilliant Club for the South-West region. Teaching maths and biology to students with the aim of widening access to university for students from underrepresented groups. Follow Katie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_katieob_/​