Heralded as the Jane Goodall of botany in Science magazine, Hope Jahren is the recipient of three Fulbright scholarships, was named one of TIME’s100 most influential people in 2016, and is the Wilson Professor at the University of Oslo's Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics. Her memoir Lab Girl – a National Book Critics Circle Award winner – is a visceral, funny tale of work and love, her relationship with her scientist father Bill, their adventurous global field trips, the complexities of the natural world, and sexism in and beyond the laboratory. She speaks with Siouxsie Wiles.