Sian Proctor
Dr. Proctor was a geoscience professor for over 26 years and is now an artist, advisor, and storytelling specialist. She engages in strategic conversations that unlock clarity, alignment, and forward momentum—enabling individuals and organizations to let their EarthLight shine. From personal growth to nonprofit leadership and corporate innovation, she guides transformational thinking through creative insight, […]
Kurt Wüthrich
Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss scientist who, with John B. Fenn and Tanaka Koichi, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2002 for developing techniques to identify and analyze proteins and other large biological molecules. After receiving a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Basel in 1964, Wüthrich took his postdoctoral training in Switzerland and […]
Katherine Richardson
Katherine Richardson is a Professor in biological oceanography and Center leader at Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on how marine biological processes and biodiversity contribute to the ocean’s role in the Earth system. In addition, she is one of the core developers of the Planetary Boundaries Framework, that proposes guardrails for anthropogenic […]
Michel Mayor
Professor Michel Mayor is an astrophysicist at Geneva University (Switzerland). Together with Didier Queloz, in 1995 he discovered the first extrasolar planet, named 51 Pegasi b, orbiting the sunlike star 51 Pegasi. Professor Mayor was awarded the Swiss Marcel Benoist Prize in recognition of his work and its significance for human life. In 2000 he was […]
Sabina Leonelli
Sabina Leonelli holds the Chair of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology at the Technical University of Munich, where she is also Research Director of the Ethical Data Initiative, Co-Director of the Public Science Lab, lead of the ERC Project PHIL_OS and PI of the Munich Centre for Transformative Technologies and Societal Change. Her […]
Garik Israelian
Dr. Israelian, an astrophysicist at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (Spain), is the creative director and spiritual father of the STARMUS Festival. In 1999 he led a collaboration reported in the journal Nature that found the first observational evidence that supernova explosions are responsible for the formation of black holes. His research has led […]
Michela Massimi
Michela Massimi is a Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Edinburgh. She is Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Royal Astronomical Society, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and elected member of the Academia Europaea. Professor Massimi has written extensively on a variety of philosophical topics surrounding scientific practice, from […]
Costanza Bonadonna
Costanza Bonadonna is a Full Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Geneva and Head of the CERG-C Program for the Assessment and Management of Geological and Climate-Related Risks (CERG-C Program). She currently serves as Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Geneva, President of the International Association […]
Nick Lane
Nick Lane is a British biochemist and writer. He works as a researcher and lecturer in evolutionary biochemistry at University College London. He has published four books which have won several awards. Educated at Imperial College, London, he earned his PhD at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School in 1995 with a thesis entitled In vivo studies […]
Bethany Ehlmann
Bethany Ehlmann is a planetary scientist specializing in the surface processes and geochemical evolution of terrestrial planets. She is Director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), Provost’s Chair, and a faculty member in the departments of Geological Sciences and Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. Previously, she was […]
