Angela Potochnik is Professor of Philosophy, Head of the Philosophy Department, and Director of the Center for Public Engagement with Science at the University of Cincinnati. Her research addresses the nature of science and its successes, the relationships between science and the public, and methods in science, especially biology. She is the author of Idealization and the Aims of Science (2017) and Science and the Public (2024) and coauthor of Recipes for Science (2018, 2nd Ed. 2024), an introduction to scientific methods and reasoning. She earned her PhD from Stanford University in 2007.
"Potochnik" is Slovenian, pronounced "poe-toe-ch-nik".