Svitlana Krakovska
Svitlana Krakovska graduated from the Leningrad Hydrometeorological Institute with a degree in meteorology. Prior to joining the Antarctic station, she was in Siberia and the Arctic. She has experience in mountaineering in the mountains of the Caucasus and Central Asia, Crimea and Karelia, skiing in the Khibiny Mountains, kayaking and catamaran rafting, and as a […]
Stuart Morley
Stuart studied piano and conducting at Trinity College of Music and Musical Directing at the Royal Academy of Music where he was made an honorary Associate in 2012. His theatre credits as Musical Director credits include We Will Rock You, Les Misérables, Elf, Big, Only Fools and Horses, Tommy, Sleepless, Brian May & Kerry Ellis’s […]
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 […]
Maureen Raymo
Maureen Raymo is a climate scientist who works at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory where she is the G. Unger Vetlesen Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences and Co-Founding Dean Emerita of the Columbia Climate School. Prof. Raymo’s research focuses on the history and causes of climate change in the past, including understanding the consequences […]
Gary Marcus
GARY MARCUS is a leading voice in artificial intelligence. He is a scientist, best-selling author, and serial entrepreneur (Founder of Robust.AI and Geometric.AI, acquired by Uber). He is well-known for his challenges to contemporary AI, anticipating many of the current limitations decades in advance, and for his research in human language development and cognitive neuroscience. […]
Simon Phillips
Simon Phillips (born 6 February 1957) is a US-based English jazz, pop and rock drummer,[1] songwriter, and record producer. He worked with rock bands during the 1970s and 1980s and was the drummer for the band Toto from 1992 to 2014. Phillips worked as a session drummer for Jeff Beck, Gary Moore, Michael Schenker, Bernie […]
Damia Barcelo
Prof. Barcelo is a leading expert in environmental sciences. Since 2008-to date Prof. Damien Barcelo is a Director of the Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA-CERCA), Girona, Spain. From 2016 – to date he is Professor at KSU, Riyadh and Professor at ZAFU, Hangzhou .D Barceló has received the following awards: Doctor Honoris Causa by […]
George Smoot
Astrophysicist at the University of California Berkeley (USA), Professor Smoot won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for his work on COBE with John C. Mather that led to the measurement of the anisotropy and blackbody form of the cosmic microwave background radiation. He is a senior scientist at LBL and, since 2010, a professor of […]
Dante Lauretta
Dr. Dante Lauretta is a distinguished planetary scientist known for his pivotal role as the Principal Investigator of the OSIRIS-REx mission and his esteemed position as a Regents Professor of Planetary Science at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. His research is primarily dedicated to the intriguing realms of asteroids and comets, […]
THE OFFSPRING
In April of 2021, the California based band The Offspring released their 10th studio album “Let The Bad Times Roll”. The project was finished and launched in the throes of a worldwide pandemic. An album title that seemed so appropriate at the time has actually proven to be anything but…..The Offspring story since then has […]
