Roger Penrose
Sir Roger Penrose is an English mathematical physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science. He is the Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford, as well as an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. Penrose is known for his work in mathematical physics, in particular for his contributions to […]
Leslie Sage
Dr Leslie Sage is a senior editor (physical sciences) at the science journal Nature and is based at the Astronomy Department of the University of Maryland (USA). He is also a long-time columnist for the Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. He grew up in the western suburbs of Toronto, Canada, but now […]
Matt Mountain
Matt Mountain, a visionary astronomer and astrophysicist, has spent over three decades at the forefront of revolutionary space exploration and observational astronomy. A graduate and doctor of philosophy from Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, Mountain’s career has been distinguished by a relentless pursuit of pushing the boundaries of our understanding of the cosmos. […]
Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton is a pioneering computer scientist widely regarded as one of the “godfathers of artificial intelligence.” His research on artificial neural networks and deep learning laid the foundations for many of the modern AI systems used today. Hinton was a professor at the University of Toronto and a longtime researcher at Google, where his […]
Damia Barcelo
Prof. Barcelo is a leading expert in environmental sciences. Since 2008-to date Prof. Damien Barcelo is a Director of the Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA-CERCA), Girona, Spain. From 2016 – to date he is Professor at KSU, Riyadh and Professor at ZAFU, Hangzhou .D Barceló has received the following awards: Doctor Honoris Causa by […]
George Smoot
Astrophysicist at the University of California Berkeley (USA), Professor Smoot won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for his work on COBE with John C. Mather that led to the measurement of the anisotropy and blackbody form of the cosmic microwave background radiation. He is a senior scientist at LBL and, since 2010, a professor of […]
Dante Lauretta
Dr. Dante Lauretta is a distinguished planetary scientist known for his pivotal role as the Principal Investigator of the OSIRIS-REx mission and his esteemed position as a Regents Professor of Planetary Science at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. His research is primarily dedicated to the intriguing realms of asteroids and comets, […]
Ewine F. van Dishoeck
Ewine Fleur van Dishoeck is a Dutch astronomer and chemist. She is Professor of Molecular Astrophysics at Leiden Observatory, and the president-elect of the International Astronomical Union. She is a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences since 2001 and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. She received the Albert Einstein World Award of […]
Nergis Mavalvala
Nergis Mavalvala is a Pakistani-American astrophysicist known for her role in the first observation of gravitational waves. She is the Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she is also the Associate Head of the Department of Physics. She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2010. Mavalvala is best known for her work on the detection of gravitational waves in the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) […]
Nicole Stott
Nicole Stott is an astronaut, aquanaut, engineer, artist, author of Back to Earth: What Life In Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet – And Our Mission To Protect It; and most importantly a mom. She creatively combines the awe and wonder of her spaceflight experience with her artwork to inspire everyone’s appreciation of our role […]
