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Mar Gómez

Mar Gómez holds a PhD Cum Laude and a degree in Physical Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid, specializing in Atmospheric Physics. She has two master’s degrees, one in Meteorology and Geophysics and the other in Renewable Energy and Environment. For four years, she participated in a research project at the Complutense University as […]

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 […]

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 […]

Matt Mountain

Matt Mountain, a visionary astronomer and astrophysicist, has spent over three decades at the forefront of revolutionary space exploration and observational astronomy. A graduate and doctor of philosophy from Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, Mountain’s career has been distinguished by a relentless pursuit of pushing the boundaries of our understanding of the cosmos. […]

Mary Lewis

Vice President – Office of the Founder The Jane Goodall Institute Following 25 years in the oil and gas business with Conoco Inc, Mary began working and travelling with Jane Goodall in 1990. As Vice President -Office of the Founder – Global, she worked closely with Jane on all aspects of her complex life. She […]

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 […]

Jane Lubchenco

Jane Lubchenco, born on December 4, 1947, is an American environmental scientist and marine ecologist. She is a University Distinguished Professor at Oregon State University, where she focuses on the interactions between the environment and human well-being, biodiversity, climate change, and sustainable use of oceans. Lubchenco served as the Administrator of NOAA from 2009 to […]

Helen Czerski

Helen Czerski is a physicist, writer and broadcaster, and enjoys being endlessly enthusiastic about the physics of the natural world. Her academic home is University College London, where her research focuses on breaking waves and bubbles in the open ocean, and how these bubbles influence the movement of carbon dioxide and oxygen between air and […]

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 […]

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 […]