Joel Parker
Dr. Joel Parker is a Director in the Boulder office of Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and Professor Adjoint at the University of Colorado. He worked at NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center studying hot, massive stars in neighboring galaxies, and at SwRI his projects have involved research of solar system objects such as comets, the Moon, asteroids, […]
Mark Boslough
Mark Boslough is a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, an research professor at University of New Mexico, and a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is an expert in the study of planetary impacts and global catastrophes. Due to his work in this field, Asteroid 73520 Boslough (2003 MB1) was named in […]
Walter Cunningham
Ronnie Walter Cunningham (born March 16, 1932), better known as Walt Cunningham, is a retired American astronaut. In October, 1968, he was the lunar module pilot for the eleven day Apollo 7 mission. The first manned test flight of the third generation US spacecraft. Cunningham participated in and executed maneuvers enabling the crew to perform […]
Carlos Moedas
Carlos Moedas was born in Beja (Portugal) in 1970. He graduated in Civil Engineering from the Higher Technical Institute (IST) in 1993 and completed the final year of studies at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris (France). He worked in engineering for the Suez-Lyonnaise des Eaux group in France until 1998. He obtained […]
Stefan W. Hell
Stefan Walter Hell (born 23 December 1962) is a Romanian-born German physicist and one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014 “for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy”, together with Eric Betzig and William Moerner. From 1991 to 1993 Hell […]
Christer Fuglesang
Arne Christer Fuglesang is a Swedish physicist and an ESA astronaut. He was first launched aboard the STS-116 Space Shuttle mission on December 10, 2006, at 01:47 GMT, making him the first Swedish citizen in space. He was a Fellow at CERN and taught mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology before being selected to join […]
Steven Balbus
STEVEN BALBUS is the Savilian Professor of Astronomy and the Head of Astrophysics at Oxford University. He is also a Professorial Fellow at New College, Oxford. For his work on turbulence in magnetised gaseous accretion discs, Balbus was awarded the 2013 Shaw Prize in Astronomy with J. Hawley. He is a member of the U.S. […]
Victor Gorbatko
Viktor Vasilyevich Gorbatko (December 3, 1934 – May 17, 2017) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 7, Soyuz 24, and Soyuz 37 missions. Viktor’s interest in becoming a pilot was sparked during the conflict between the Soviets and the Nazis. His siblings often told him stories of brave pilots and their adventures […]
Javier Santaolalla
Javier Santaolalla was born in Burgos and brewed in the Canary Islands. He studied Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and, with time to spare, simultaneously pursued a degree in Physics, graduating from the Complutense University of Madrid, where he also completed a master’s in Fundamental Physics. In between, and […]
Magdalena Skipper
Magdalena Skipper is a geneticist and science editor who serves as Editor-in-Chief of Nature, one of the world’s leading scientific journals. Trained in genetics at the University of Cambridge, she began her career in scientific publishing at Nature and went on to hold several editorial leadership roles across the Nature portfolio. In 2018 she became […]
