Carolyn Porco
Carolyn Porco is leader of the imaging team for the Saturn-orbiting Cassini mission, and a veteran imaging scientist on the 1980s Voyager mission to the outer planets. Over the course of a 40-year career in planetary science, she has made seminal scientific contributions in a variety of disciplines, most recently in the study of the […]
Adam Burrows
Adam Burrows is currently a Professor of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. He received his undergraduate degree in Physics from Princeton and his Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His primary research interests are supernova theory, exoplanet and brown dwarf theory, planetary atmospheres, computational astrophysics, and nuclear astrophysics. Well-known as a pioneer […]
Jane Lubchenco
Jane Lubchenco, born on December 4, 1947, is an American environmental scientist and marine ecologist. She is a University Distinguished Professor at Oregon State University, where she focuses on the interactions between the environment and human well-being, biodiversity, climate change, and sustainable use of oceans. Lubchenco served as the Administrator of NOAA from 2009 to […]
Serge Haroche
Serge Haroche is a Nobel Prize–winning physicist renowned for his groundbreaking experiments in quantum physics. Awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics, he pioneered methods to observe and control individual quantum particles, allowing scientists to measure fragile quantum states without destroying them. Haroche’s work opened new paths in quantum optics and quantum information science. He […]
Victor J. Glover
Victor J. Glover, Jr. is an emeritus NASA Astronaut and retired U.S. Navy Captain selected as an astronaut in 2013 while serving as a Legislative Fellow in the U.S. Senate. He piloted the Crew-1 Dragon spacecraft, callsign Resilience, to the International Space Station where he was a Flight Engineer for Expedition 64/65. Glover recently piloted NASA’s […]
Katharine Hayhoe
Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist whose research focuses on developing and applying high-resolution climate projections to understand what climate change means for people and the natural environment. She is an associate professor and director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University, and has a B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Toronto […]
Jean-Jacques Dordain
Jean-Jacques Dordain served with great distinction as the Director-General of ESA, the European Space Agency, from 2003 to 2015. During his tenure at ESA, Mr Dordain has nurtured ESA’s relationship with the European Union and its institutions. He presided over a long string of successful Ariane launches carrying important space science missions, as well as […]
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 […]
