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 […]
Lisa Kaltenegger
Lisa Kaltenegger is the Director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell and Associate Professor in Astronomy. Her research focuses on exploring new worlds orbiting other stars, especially rocky planets and super-Earths and their atmospheres in the habitable zone. She is a world-leading expert in modeling potential habitable worlds and their detectable spectral fingerprint, which […]
Tim Peake
Born in Chichester, England, on 7 April 1972, Tim is married with two sons. Among his leisure activities he enjoys skiing, scuba diving, cross-country running and climbing. Other interests include quantum physics and aviation. Education Tim completed his secondary education at Chichester High School for Boys in West Sussex, England, in 1990. In 1992, he graduated from […]
Alfred Worden
Alfred Merrill “Al” Worden (born February 7, 1932), (Col, USAF, Ret.), is an American astronaut and engineer who was the Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 15 lunar mission in 1971. He is one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon. Worden was one of the 19 astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966. He served as a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 9 flight […]
Susumu Tonegawa
Susumu Tonegawa received his Ph.D. from UCSD. He then undertook postdoctoral work at the Salk Institute in San Diego, before working at the Basel Institute for Immunology in Basel, Switzerland, where he performed his landmark immunology experiments. Tonegawa won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for “his discovery of the genetic principle […]
Paul D.N. Hebert
Paul D. N. Hebert, OC FRSC is a Canadian biologist. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Molecular Biodiversity, and is a tenured full professor at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, and the director of the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario. Hebert is best known as the “father of DNA barcoding”. In 2015, he […]
Jim Al-Khalili
Jim Al-Khalili is a British professor of physics, author and broadcaster based at the University of Surrey where he currently teaches and conducts research in theoretical physics and where he holds a second chair in the Public Engagement in Science. He received his PhD in nuclear physics in 1989 and has published over a hundred […]
Neil Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut, engineer, and the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also an aerospace engineer, naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong was an officer in the U.S. Navy and served in the Korean War. […]
Jim Bell
Jim Bell is a renowned planetary scientist, educator, author, and public speaker. He is a professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University and has been heavily involved in NASA’s solar system exploration missions, including the Mars rovers Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity. Bell’s research focuses on the surface composition and […]
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 […]
