Kip Thorne
Kip Thorne is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. A longtime friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, he was the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) until 2009 and is one of the world’s leading experts on the astrophysical implications of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. He continues to do scientific research […]
Bernhard Schölkopf
Bernhard Schölkopf’s scientific interests are in machine learning and causal inference. He has applied his methods to a number of different fields, ranging from biomedical problems to computational photography and astronomy. Bernhard studied physics and mathematics and earned his Ph.D. in computer science in 1997, becoming a Max Planck director in 2001. He has (co-)received […]
Alfred McEwen
Dr. McEwen is Professor in the Department of Planetary Sciences, University of Arizona, and Director of the Planetary Image Research Lab (PIRL). He has studied planetary surfaces for more than 30 years, including time at the U.S. Geological Survey prior to joining UA in 1996. Research interests include volcanology, cratering, slope processes, and remote sensing […]
Sons of Apollo
Sons of Apollo is an American progressive rock supergroup formed in 2017 and composed of drummer Mike Portnoy (ex Dream Theatre), bassist Billy Sheehan (ex Mister Big), keyboardist Derek Sherinian (ex Dream Theatre), vocalist Jeff Scott Soto (ex Journey) and guitarist Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal (ex Guns and Roses). Sherinian and Portnoy played together in progressive […]
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 […]
Chris Rapley
Chris Rapley CBE is Professor of Climate Science at University College London. He is a Fellow of St Edmund’s College Cambridge, a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a member of the Academia Europaea, a Board member of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, Chairman of the European Space Agency Director General’s High Level […]
Mark Boslough
Mark Boslough is a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, an research professor at University of New Mexico, and a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is an expert in the study of planetary impacts and global catastrophes. Due to his work in this field, Asteroid 73520 Boslough (2003 MB1) was named in […]
Andrey Makarevich
Andrey Makarevich is a Soviet and Russian rock musician and the founder of Russia’s oldest still active rock band Mashina Vremeni (Time Machine). He is often considered as Sovet Union Paul McCartney. Makarevich was born in Moscow to mixed heritage parents of Belarusian, Polish aristocracy, Greek and Jewish origin. He graduated from Moscow Institute of […]
Edvard Moser
Edvard Moser is a Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. He is interested in how spatial location and spatial memory are computed in the brain. His work, conducted with May-Britt Moser as a long-term collaborator, includes the discovery of […]
Joel Parker
Dr. Joel Parker is a Director in the Boulder office of Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and Professor Adjoint at the University of Colorado. He worked at NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center studying hot, massive stars in neighboring galaxies, and at SwRI his projects have involved research of solar system objects such as comets, the Moon, asteroids, […]