Katherine Richardson
Katherine Richardson is a Professor in biological oceanography and Center leader at Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on how marine biological processes and biodiversity contribute to the ocean’s role in the Earth system. In addition, she is one of the core developers of the Planetary Boundaries Framework, that proposes guardrails for anthropogenic […]
Edvard Moser
Edvard Moser is a Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. He is interested in how spatial location and spatial memory are computed in the brain. His work, conducted with May-Britt Moser as a long-term collaborator, includes the discovery of […]
Ros Rickaby
Ros Rickaby is a marine biogeochemist who has interrogated Earth’s history of life and climate from signals of adaptation within genes, evolving enzyme affinities, and their relic isotopic footprints to inform predictions of the future marine biosphere. She is currently Chair of Geology at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, having been Professor […]
Joel Parker
Dr. Joel Parker is a Director in the Boulder office of Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and Professor Adjoint at the University of Colorado. He worked at NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center studying hot, massive stars in neighboring galaxies, and at SwRI his projects have involved research of solar system objects such as comets, the Moon, asteroids, […]
Mark Boslough
Mark Boslough is a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, an research professor at University of New Mexico, and a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is an expert in the study of planetary impacts and global catastrophes. Due to his work in this field, Asteroid 73520 Boslough (2003 MB1) was named in […]
Walter Cunningham
Ronnie Walter Cunningham (born March 16, 1932), better known as Walt Cunningham, is a retired American astronaut. In October, 1968, he was the lunar module pilot for the eleven day Apollo 7 mission. The first manned test flight of the third generation US spacecraft. Cunningham participated in and executed maneuvers enabling the crew to perform […]
Carlos Moedas
Carlos Moedas was born in Beja (Portugal) in 1970. He graduated in Civil Engineering from the Higher Technical Institute (IST) in 1993 and completed the final year of studies at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris (France). He worked in engineering for the Suez-Lyonnaise des Eaux group in France until 1998. He obtained […]
Stefan W. Hell
Stefan Walter Hell (born 23 December 1962) is a Romanian-born German physicist and one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014 “for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy”, together with Eric Betzig and William Moerner. From 1991 to 1993 Hell […]
Christer Fuglesang
Arne Christer Fuglesang is a Swedish physicist and an ESA astronaut. He was first launched aboard the STS-116 Space Shuttle mission on December 10, 2006, at 01:47 GMT, making him the first Swedish citizen in space. He was a Fellow at CERN and taught mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology before being selected to join […]
Steven Balbus
STEVEN BALBUS is the Savilian Professor of Astronomy and the Head of Astrophysics at Oxford University. He is also a Professorial Fellow at New College, Oxford. For his work on turbulence in magnetised gaseous accretion discs, Balbus was awarded the 2013 Shaw Prize in Astronomy with J. Hawley. He is a member of the U.S. […]