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Pietro Barabaschi

Pietro Barabaschi is a  Director-General of  ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor).  ITER is the world’s largest fusion experiment. Thirty-five nations are collaborating to build and operate the ITER Tokamak, the most complex machine ever constructed by humans. Pietro Barabaschi has been working since 2009 in Fusion for Energy (F4E), the European Union organisation responsible for […]

Philip Torr

Professor Philip Torr did his PhD (DPhil) at the Robotics Research Group of the University of Oxford under Professor David Murray of the Active Vision Group. He worked for another three years at Oxford as a research fellow, and still maintains close contact as visiting fellow there. He won several awards including the Marr prize […]

Martin Rees

Lord Martin Rees is a Fellow of Trinity College and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge. He holds the honorary title of Astronomer Royal and also Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and at Leicester University. After studying at the University of Cambridge, he held post-doctoral positions in the UK […]

Emmanuelle Charpentier

Emmanuelle Charpentier is a French researcher in microbiology, genetics and biochemistry. After defending her dissertation, she worked at several universities and hospitals in the United States including Rockefeller University, New York University Langone Medical Center, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine (all in New York) and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis. After five years, […]

Tony Fadell

Mr. Anthony “Tony” Fadell is an active investor and entrepreneur with a 30+ year history of founding companies and designing products that profoundly improve people’s lives. As the Principal at Future Shape LLC, a global investment and advisory firm coaching engineers and scientists working on foundational deep technology, he is continuing to help bring technology […]

Javier Santaolalla

Javier Santaolalla was born in Burgos and brewed in the Canary Islands. He studied Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and, with time to spare, simultaneously pursued a degree in Physics, graduating from the Complutense University of Madrid, where he also completed a master’s in Fundamental Physics. In between, and […]

Rafael Yuste

Dr. Rafael Yuste is a Spanish neurobiologist based in the United States, renowned for his groundbreaking work in neuroscience. Born on April 25, 1963, in Madrid, he studied medicine at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He later moved to the United States for his PhD at Rockefeller University, where he developed the calcium imaging technique, […]

Miguel Alcubierre

Miguel Alcubierre Moya, born on March 28, 1964, in Mexico City, is a renowned Mexican theoretical physicist best known for proposing the Alcubierre drive, a speculative concept for faster-than-light travel. Alcubierre’s academic journey began at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he earned a Licentiate degree in Physics in 1988 and a Master’s […]

Sara Garcia

Sara García Alonso, born in 1989 in León, Spain, is a prominent biotechnologist and cancer researcher. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology in 2012 and a master’s degree in Biomedical and Biological Research in 2013, both from the University of León. In 2018, she completed her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology of Cancer and Translational […]

Valentin Martinez

Valentín Martínez, born in Alicante, Spain, is a distinguished solar physicist and the newly appointed Director of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) as of July 2024. He earned his Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of La Laguna and the IAC. Martínez has an extensive background in solar physics, having served as the […]