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 […]
Anousheh Ansari
Anousheh Ansari is the CEO of XPRIZE, the world’s leader in designing and operating incentive competitions to solve humanity’s grand challenges. The first female private space explorer and first Muslim woman in space, she is a global presence in future-positive tech markets and a resonant voice for women within STEM, business, and the entrepreneurial industries. […]
Mary Lewis
Vice President – Office of the Founder The Jane Goodall Institute Following 25 years in the oil and gas business with Conoco Inc, Mary began working and travelling with Jane Goodall in 1990. As Vice President -Office of the Founder – Global, she worked closely with Jane on all aspects of her complex life. She […]
