Alexandra Witze
Alexandra Witze is an award-winning science journalist and correspondent for the journal Nature. Her reporting has taken her from the North Pole (to report on climate change) to the jungles of Guatemala (to cover Maya archaeology) to China’s quake-ravaged Sichuan province. Island on Fire is her first book. Alex has freelanced for such publications as The […]
Adam Smith
Adam SMITH is Chief Scientific Officer of the Nobel Foundation’s media company, Nobel Media AB. After Fellowships in molecular biology, neuroscience and physiology in Oxford, Harvard and Heidelberg he pursued research in developmental neuroscience at Oxford University before moving into science publishing. At Nature Publishing Group he launched Nature Reviews Drug Discovery as Chief Editor and then, as […]
Peter Schwartz
Peter Schwartz is Senior Vice President for Strategic Planning for Salesforce.com. In this role he directs policy and politics throughout the world and manages the organization’s ongoing strategic conversation. Prior to joining Salesforce he was cofounder and chairman of Global Business Network, a Monitor Group company, and a partner of the Monitor Group, a family […]
Joseph Silk
Joseph Silk holds the Savilian Chair of Astronomy at the University of Oxford (UK) and is Director of the Beecroft Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology. Professor Silk has over 500 publications, of which 20 have been published in Natureand 11 in Science. A graduate of Harvard University, Professor Silk has given more than two […]
Miguel Alcubierre
Miguel Alcubierre Moya, born on March 28, 1964, in Mexico City, is a renowned Mexican theoretical physicist best known for proposing the Alcubierre drive, a speculative concept for faster-than-light travel. Alcubierre’s academic journey began at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he earned a Licentiate degree in Physics in 1988 and a Master’s […]
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker is a cognitive scientist, psychologist, and bestselling author known for his research on language, mind, and human nature. He is the Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and previously taught at Stanford and MIT. Pinker’s work explores how language and cognition emerge from the structure of the human brain, and he is […]
Jeremy Hansen
On April 10, 2026, Colonel Jeremy Hansen splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after a historic mission to deep space that saw him travel farther from Earth than any human before him. The Artemis II mission was a defining moment for space exploration — marking the first time in more than 50 years humans flew […]
Lilith
Eva Lilith Pereda, known as Lilith, is a multidisciplinary artist who combines visual art, performance and scientific ideas. Her projects explore physics and the universe through painting, film and theatrical formats. Yo, Alien y los científicos terráqueos uses a fictional encounter with an extraterrestrial civilisation to introduce scientific questions through a musical performance.
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 […]
Garrett Reisman
Garret Reisman was selected by NASA as a mission specialist astronaut in 1998. His first mission was aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour which dropped him off for a 95 day mission aboard the International Space Station after which he returned to Earth aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. His second mission was aboard the Space Shuttle […]
