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Anton Zeilinger

Anton Zeilinger, born 20 May 1945, is an Austrian quantum physicist working on fundamental aspects of quantum science with focus of matter waves and quantum entanglement and pioneering possible applications, at the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Together with Alain Aspect and John F. Clauser he was awarded the Nobel Prize […]

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 […]

Diane Ackerman

Poet, essayist, and naturalist, Diane Ackerman is the author of over two dozen highly acclaimed works of nonfiction and poetry, including the bestsellers, “A Natural History of the Senses, “The Zookeeper’s Wife,” and “The Human Age” — books beloved by millions of readers all over the world. In prose so rich and evocative that one […]

Fabiola Gianotti

Fabiola Gianotti is an Italian particle physicist, the CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Director-General, and the first woman to hold this position. Her mandate began on 1 January 2016 and runs for a period of five years. Dr. Gianotti received a PhD in experimental particle physics from the University of Milan in 1989. Since […]

Adam Riess

Adam Riess is a Professor of Astronomy and Physics at the Johns Hopkins University and a Senior member of the Science Staff at the Space Telescope Science Institute, both in Baltimore, MD. His research involves measurements of the cosmological framework with supernovae (exploding stars) and Cepheids (pulsating stars). In 1998 Dr. Riess led a study […]

Clive Neal

Clive R. Neal is a Professor of Planetary Geology at the University of Notre Dame, USA, specializing in the study of the Moon. After obtaining his PhD in 1986 from the University of Leeds, he moved to the United States where he began his lunar research through the study of Apollo lunar samples. Neal is […]

Nick Lane

Nick Lane is a British biochemist and writer. He works as a researcher and lecturer in evolutionary biochemistry at University College London. He has published four books which have won several awards. Educated at Imperial College, London, he earned his PhD at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School in 1995 with a thesis entitled In vivo studies […]

Tim Hunt

Tim Hunt is an emeritus ‘Principal Scientist’ at The Francis Crick Institute, London, and a visiting researcher at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) in Japan. He was born in 1943 and grew up in Oxford until moving to Cambridge to read Natural Sciences in 1961. He did his PhD in the Department […]

Roman Romanenko

Roman Yurievich Romanenko (Major, Russian Air Force; Russian: Роман Юрьевич Романенко; born August 9, 1971) is a retiredcosmonaut at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. After graduation from Star City high school in 1986, Romanenko entered the Leningrad Suvorov military school, from which he graduated in 1988. In 1988, he entered the Chernigov High Air […]

Giancarlo Erra

UK based Italian composer, multi-instrumentalist and visual artist Giancarlo Erra started his career in 2005 with one man studio project Nosound. In 2008 Erra signed the project to the acclaimed UK based experimental label Kscope and moved to the UK to establish and expand his career. Being both writer and producer, his music inventively combines […]