Jim Bell
Jim Bell is a renowned planetary scientist, educator, author, and public speaker. He is a professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University and has been heavily involved in NASA’s solar system exploration missions, including the Mars rovers Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity. Bell’s research focuses on the surface composition and […]
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 […]
Victor J. Glover
Victor J. Glover, Jr. is an emeritus NASA Astronaut and retired U.S. Navy Captain selected as an astronaut in 2013 while serving as a Legislative Fellow in the U.S. Senate. He piloted the Crew-1 Dragon spacecraft, callsign Resilience, to the International Space Station where he was a Flight Engineer for Expedition 64/65. Glover recently piloted NASA’s […]
Jane Goodall’s grandchildren
Merlin, Angel and Nick van Lawick are Jane Goodall’s grandchildren. Their Science Camp appearance brings a family connection to her legacy of conservation, curiosity and hope. Through this shared session, the programme celebrates the continuing importance of caring for wildlife, engaging young people and taking action for a more sustainable relationship with the natural world.
Edvard Moser
Edvard Moser is a Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. He is interested in how spatial location and spatial memory are computed in the brain. His work, conducted with May-Britt Moser as a long-term collaborator, includes the discovery of […]
Ros Rickaby
Ros Rickaby is a marine biogeochemist who has interrogated Earth’s history of life and climate from signals of adaptation within genes, evolving enzyme affinities, and their relic isotopic footprints to inform predictions of the future marine biosphere. She is currently Chair of Geology at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, having been Professor […]
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 […]
