Susan Bailey

Dame Professor Sue Bailey is a clinician researcher and educator. Her specialist area is in working with individuals, families and communities facing adversity to help them to aspire flourish and achieve. Taking a Social Identity approach to health and how to develop purpose, meaning and sense of control in the lives of individuals through positive, […]
Stephen Hawking

Stephen William Hawking is an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge. His scientific works include a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. Hawking was the first to set out a theory of cosmology explained by a union of […]
Katerina Harvati

At the Institute for Early Prehistory and Medieval Archaeology and the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment, University of Tübingen. Her research focuses on Neanderthal evolution, modern human origins and the application of 3-D geometric morphometrics and virtual anthropology to paleoanthropology. Her research was named one of the top 10 scientific discoveries of the […]
Mar Gómez

Mar Gómez holds a PhD Cum Laude and a degree in Physical Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid, specializing in Atmospheric Physics. She has two master’s degrees, one in Meteorology and Geophysics and the other in Renewable Energy and Environment. For four years, she participated in a research project at the Complutense University as […]
Juan Luis Arsuaga

Juan Luis Arsuaga, born in 1954 in Madrid, Spain, is a distinguished paleoanthropologist renowned for his significant contributions to the study of human evolution. He earned his master’s degree and doctorate in Biological Sciences from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where he is a professor in the Paleontology Department. Arsuaga is best known for his […]
Abby Moule

Abby Moule is a UK-based astrophotographer whose work transforms the night sky into stories of light, landscape and quiet wonder. She specialises in narrative-led imagery that captures the movement of stars, the breath of the atmosphere and the timeless presence of the land beneath. Driven by a desire to help others experience the awe she […]
Michael Bakich

Michael has been fascinated with the stars all his life. His astronomical journey began in third grade, after his parents bought him a set of constellation flash cards. From that day forward, Michael’s goal was to become an astronomer. He realized that goal in 1975, when he graduated with a degree in astronomy from the […]
Steven Chu

Steven Chu is Professor of Physics, Molecular and Cellular Physiology, and Energy Science and Engineering at Stanford University. He received the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for laser cooling and trapping of atoms. Other contributions include the first optical tweezers manipulation of biomolecules, precision atom interferometry based on optical pulses of light, and single molecule […]
Kathryn Thornton

Dr. Thornton Graduated from Sidney Lanier High School, Montgomery, Alabama, in 1970; received a bachelor of science degree in physics from Auburn University in 1974, a master of science degree in physics from the University of Virginia in 1977, and a doctorate of philosophy in physics from the University of Virginia in 1979.After Dr. Thornton […]
Chris Rapley

Chris Rapley CBE is Professor of Climate Science at University College London. He is a Fellow of St Edmund’s College Cambridge, a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a member of the Academia Europaea, a Board member of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, Chairman of the European Space Agency Director General’s High Level […]
