"My 10-year-old self is doing backflips that I'm even connected to NASA at all, let alone working there." A conversation with Ryan Scott.

Share your Science: A Collection of Stories from Scientists

Ryan Scott followed a nontraditional path to NASA Ames Research Center. From his passions for social justice and rugby to his start in exercise physiology and teaching college anatomy, Ryan is a biological research scientist. He works to get bio-specimens from spaceflight missions into a bio-repository at NASA Ames. From here, the research community has free access to these data in order to maximize science from surplus samples.