Nathan Wolfe

Wolfe spent over eight years conducting biomedical research in both sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. He is also the founder of Metabiota, which offers both governmental and corporate services for biological threat evaluation and management. He serves on the editorial board of EcoHealth and Scientific American and is a member of DARPA's Defense Science Research Council. His laboratory was among the first to discover and describe the Simian foamy virus.

In 2008, he warned that the world was not ready for a pandemic.

In 2011, his book The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age was short-listed for the Winton Prize.

As reported in a Wired feature in 2020, Wolfe worked with the German insurance firm Munich Re to offer major corporate leaders pandemic policies, which were not purchased; a stark reality during the ensuing COVID-19 pandemic.

Wolfe is married to the playwright Lauren Gunderson, they have been separated since October 2025. The pair have two sons. As part of his work, Wolfe has lived in Cameroon, Malaysia and Uganda.