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 […]
Brian E. Cox
Brian E. Cox is University Professor of particle physics at Manchester University. He is best known to the public as the presenter of science programmes. Before his academic career, Cox was a keyboard player for the bands D. Ream and Dare. Cox is a PPARC advanced fellow and member of the High Energy Physics group […]
Alexander Volkov
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov is a Russian cosmonaut. His first spaceflight was a trip to Salyut 7 in 1985 (64 days in space), followed by two flights to the Mir space station, in 1988–1989 (151 days) and again in 1991–1992 (175 days) as commander of flight Soyuz TM-13. On board the Mir space station, he controlled the […]
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 […]
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 […]
