Aubrey is a British biomedical gerontologist educated at Cambridge University in the UK. He is cofounder, chief science officer, and chairman of the Methuselah Foundation, and editor-in-chief of the academic journal Rejuvenation Research. He is also the author of Ending Aging and the Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging. He has formulated a wide-ranging plan for the comprehensive and potentially indefinite postponement of age-related physical and mental decline, named SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence). He is the organizer of an ongoing series of conferences and workshops that focus on the key biomedical research relevant to SENS, and he also oversees the Methuselah Foundation's growing sponsorship of SENS research worldwide. He has been interviewed by CBS 60 Minutes, BBC, The Colbert Report, Fortune Magazine, Popular Science, and the New York Times.