Helen Sharman
Helen Sharman is a British chemist who became the first British astronaut and the first woman to visit the Mir space station in 1991. Sharman was born in Grenoside, Sheffield, where she attended Grenoside Junior and Infant School, later moving to Greenhill. After studying at Jordanthorpe Comprehensive, she received a BSc in chemistry at the University of Sheffield in 1984 and a PhD from Birkbeck, University […]
Eugene Kaspersky
Eugene Kaspersky is a world-renowned cybersecurity expert and successful entrepreneur. He is the Chairman and CEO of Kaspersky Lab, the world’s largest privately-held vendor of endpoint protection and cybersecurity solutions. Eugene began his career in cybersecurity accidentally when his computer became infected with the ‘Cascade’ virus in 1989. Eugene’s specialized education in cryptography helped him […]
Priyamvada Natarajan
Priyamvada Natarajan is a theoretical astrophysicist at Yale. She is recognized for her seminal contributions to the study of dark matter and the formation and growth of black holes. She is a phenomenologist and uses gravitational lensing observations, the deflection of light rays by matter in the universe, to map the detailed distribution of dark […]
John Delaney
John R. Delaney is a Professor of Oceanography and holds the Jerome M. Paros Endowed Chair in Sensor Networks at the University of Washington. Since 1997, he has directed the evolution and development of the first U.S. Regional Cabled Ocean Observatory, which was initially known as NEPTUNE and is now the Regional Scale Nodes program within […]
Joseph Stiglitz
JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ is University Professor at Columbia University, the winner of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, and a lead author of the 1995 IPCC report, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He was chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton and chief economist and senior vice president […]
Sergei Zhukov
Sergei Zhukov is Executive Director of the Space Technologies & Telecommunications Cluster of the Skolkovo Foundation and a Member of Russian Academy of Cosmonautics. From Dzhezkazgan, in Kazakhstan (now the landing site for Soyuz landing modules), Zhukov graduated from Bauman Moscow State Technical University and did post-graduate work on gas core nuclear installations for space […]
Rafael Yuste
Dr. Rafael Yuste is a Spanish neurobiologist based in the United States, renowned for his groundbreaking work in neuroscience. Born on April 25, 1963, in Madrid, he studied medicine at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He later moved to the United States for his PhD at Rockefeller University, where he developed the calcium imaging technique, […]
Julie Payette
Julie Payette is a Canadian astronaut, engineer, and scientist who flew on two Space Shuttle missions and spent more than 25 days in space. After joining the Canadian Space Agency in 1992, she worked on robotics operations for the International Space Station and flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery and Endeavour. From 2017 to 2021 she […]
Pedro Miguel Echenique
President of the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) and Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of the Basque Country, he holds a degree in Physical Sciences from the University of Navarra, a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge (1976) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1977), and completed postdoctoral work at Oak Ridge […]
Daniel Martín
Daniel Martín is co-founder and technical director of Canaryone, a Tenerife-based educational card game about the Canary Islands. He created the project’s first playable version and develops its technical direction alongside co-founders Rubén Dorta and Jorge Martínez. Canaryone uses illustrated island cards and familiar game mechanics to share the archipelago’s cultural, natural and historical heritage.
