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 […]
Andreas Kaufer
Andreas Kaufer is a senior science leader at the European Southern Observatory (ESO). He earned his PhD in astronomy at Heidelberg University (1996) and joined ESO in 1999, contributing to the start of operations of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. His scientific work focuses on high-resolution spectroscopy of massive, luminous stars, probing how their atmospheres, winds, and circumstellar environments evolve and vary over […]
Chris Hadfield
Colonel Chris Hadfield is an astronaut, business leader, hi-tech entrepreneur, 5-time best-selling author and global speaker on leadership, change and managing life. Having commanded the International Space Station and directed companies, he has deep experience with best practices and tactics on guiding teams through extreme circumstances of complexity and change, while also recognizing the importance […]
Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton is a pioneering computer scientist widely regarded as one of the “godfathers of artificial intelligence.” His research on artificial neural networks and deep learning laid the foundations for many of the modern AI systems used today. Hinton was a professor at the University of Toronto and a longtime researcher at Google, where his […]
David Eicher
David John Eicher (born August 7, 1961) is an American editor, writer, and popularizer of astronomy and space. He has been editor-in-chief of Astronomymagazine since 2002. He is author, coauthor, or editor of 21 books on science and American history and is known for having founded a magazine on astronomical observing, Deep Sky Monthly, when he was a […]
Serge Haroche
Serge Haroche is a Nobel Prize–winning physicist renowned for his groundbreaking experiments in quantum physics. Awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics, he pioneered methods to observe and control individual quantum particles, allowing scientists to measure fragile quantum states without destroying them. Haroche’s work opened new paths in quantum optics and quantum information science. He […]
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 […]
Magdalena Skipper
Magdalena Skipper is a geneticist and science editor who serves as Editor-in-Chief of Nature, one of the world’s leading scientific journals. Trained in genetics at the University of Cambridge, she began her career in scientific publishing at Nature and went on to hold several editorial leadership roles across the Nature portfolio. In 2018 she became […]
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 […]
Julie Payette
Julie Payette is a Canadian astronaut, engineer, and scientist who flew on two Space Shuttle missions and spent more than 25 days in space. After joining the Canadian Space Agency in 1992, she worked on robotics operations for the International Space Station and flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery and Endeavour. From 2017 to 2021 she […]