Barry Barish

2017 Nobel Laureate, Physicist | Professor of Physics, Emeritus, Caltech

Barry Barish is an experimental physicist and a Linde Professor of Physics, emeritus at California Institute of Technology. He became the Principal In...

Lee Berger

2016 Rolex National Geographic Explorer of the Year, Paleoanthropologist | Phillip Tobias Chair of Paleo-Anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand

Lee R. Berger is an award-winning researcher, author, paleoanthropologist, and speaker. For more than two decades, his explorations into human origins...

Markus Buehler

Materials Scientist | Professor of Engineering, MIT

Markus J. Buehler is a materials scientist and engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a professor and the department head at MIT’s ...

Robbert Dijkgraaf

Mathematical Physicist | Director and Leon Levy Professor, Institute for Advanced Study

Robbert Dijkgraaf is Director and Leon Levy Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, one of the world’s leading centers for curiosity-driven res...

Shep Doeleman

Astronomer | Founding Director, Event Horizon Telescope Project, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian

Shep Doeleman received his B.A. from Reed College in 1986 and left soon after for a year in Antarctica where he ran multiple experiments in the polar ...

Sylvia Earle

Oceanographer, Marine Biologist | President, Chairman, Mission Blue

National Geographic Society Explorer-in-Residence Dr. Sylvia A. Earle is an oceanographer, explorer, author, and lecturer who has been called a “Livin...

George Ellis

Cosmologist | Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town

George Ellis is Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town and investigates cosmology, the nature of time, and the emerg...

Drew Endy

Synthetic Biologist | Bioengineering Professor, Stanford University

Drew Endy is an associate professor of Bioengineering at Stanford. His Stanford research team develops genetically encoded computers and redesigns gen...

Katherine Freese

Cosmologist | Professor of Physics, University of Texas at Austin

Katherine Freese holds the Jeff and Gail Kodosky Endowed Chair in Physics at the University of Texas at Austin. Previously, she was the George E. Uhle...

Edward Frenkel

Mathematician | Professor of Mathematics, UC Berkeley

Edward Frenkel is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a...

Andrea Ghez

2020 Nobel Laureate, Astrophysicist | Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA

Andrea M. Ghez, professor of Physics and Astronomy and Lauren B. Leichtman & Arthur E. Levine chair in Astrophysics, is one of the world’s leading exp...

Gabriela González

Physicist | Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University; Former Spokesperson, LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Gabriela González is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Louisiana State University, which is only 30 miles away from one of two...

Brian Greene

Physicist, Author | Co-founder, World Science Festival; Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Columbia University.

Brian Greene is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, where he also serves as the director of Columbia’s Center for Theoretic...

Alan Guth

2012 Breakthrough Prize Winner, 2014 Kavli Prize Laureate, Cosmologist | Professor of Physics, MIT

Alan Guth is a professor of physics at MIT, and world-renowned for his discovery of inflationary cosmology, the dominant cosmological paradigm for ove...

Suzana Herculano-Houzel

Neuroscientist | Associate Professor of Psychology, Associate Director for Communications, Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Vanderbilt University

Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Ph.D,. is a biologist and neuroscientist at Vanderbilt University, where she is associate professor in the Departments of Psy...

Mandë Holford

Biochemist | Associate Professor of Chemistry, Hunter College

Mandë Holford is an Associate Professor in Chemistry at Hunter College and CUNY-Graduate Center, with scientific appointments at the American Museum o...

David Holland

Physical Climate Scientist | Professor of Mathematics and Atmosphere, NYU

David Michael Holland is a Professor of Mathematics and Atmosphere-Ocean Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York Univers...

Veronika Hubeny

Theoretical Physicist | Professor of Physics, University of California, Davis

Veronika Hubeny is a Professor in the Department of Physics at University of California, Davis. She is one of the founding members of the Center for Q...

Justin Khoury

Physicist | Professor of Physics, University of Pennsylvania

Justin Khoury is a professor of physics and the undergraduate chair of physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania. He obtained his B.Sc. ...

Christof Koch

Neuroscientist | Chief Scientist, MindScope Program, Allen Institute for Brain Science

Born in the American Midwest, Christof Koch grew up in Holland, Germany, Canada, and Morocco. He studied physics and philosophy and was awarded his Ph...

Andrei Linde

2014 Kavli Prize Laureate, Cosmologist | Professor of Physics, Stanford University

Andrei Linde is a professor of physics at Stanford University, one of the authors of the inflationary theory and the theory of inflationary multiverse...

Samir Mathur

Physicist | Professor of Physics, The Ohio State University

Samir Mathur is a physicist with a background in string theory, general relativity, and astrophysics. He is best known for developing the Fuzzball con...

Nergis Mavalvala

Physicist, MacArthur Fellow | Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics and Dean of the School of Science, MIT

Nergis Mavalvala is a physicist whose research focuses on the detection of gravitational waves and quantum measurement science. She has been working o...

Alfred Mele

Philosopher | Professor of Philosophy, Florida State University

Alfred Mele is the William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. He is known for his development of a caus...

Priyamvada Natarajan

Astrophysicist | Professor of Astronomy and Physics, Yale University

Priyamvada Natarajan is a professor at the Department of Astronomy and Physics at Yale. She is a theoretical astrophysicist interested in cosmology, g...

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz

Cardiologist, Psychiatrist | Professor of Medicine, UCLA

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, M.D., is a cardiologist and psychiatrist who turns to the natural world for insights into human health and development. Fa...

Miguel Nicolelis

Neuroscientist | Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience, Duke School of Medicine

Miguel Nicolelis, M.D., Ph.D., is the Duke School of Medicine Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience at Duke University, professor of neurobiology, b...

Adam Riess

2011 Nobel Laureate, Astrophysicist | Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University

Adam Riess is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor and the Thomas J. Barber Professor of Physics and Astronomy in the Krieger School of Arts and Scienc...

Carlo Rovelli

Theoretical Physicist | Director, Quantum Gravity Group, Center for Theoretical Physics

Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist in the field of quantum gravity and in the history and philosophy of science. He is a co-founder of the loop ...

Dimitar Sasselov

Astronomer | Phillips Professor of Astronomy and Director, Origins of Life Initiative, Harvard University

Dimitar Sasselov is an astronomer and the founding director of Harvard's Origins of Life Initiative, a new interdisciplinary institute that joins biol...

Maria Spiropulu

Physicist | Shang-Yi Ch’en Professor of Physics, Caltech

Maria Spiropulu is an experimental particle physicist at the California Institute of Technology. Born and educated in Macedonia/Greece, she moved to t...

Paul Steinhardt

Physicist | Professor of Physics, Princeton University

Paul J. Steinhardt is the Albert Einstein Professor in Science and Director, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton University, where h...

Sam Sternberg

Biochemist | Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University

Samuel H. Sternberg, Ph.D., runs a research laboratory at Columbia University, where he is an assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry an...

Andrew Strominger

2017 Breakthrough Prize Winner, Physicist | Professor of Physics, Harvard University

Andrew Strominger is the Gwill E. York Professor of Physics at Harvard University and a founding member of the Black Hole Initiative. He is a renowned...

Max Tegmark

Physicist, AI Researcher | Professor of Physics, MIT

Max Tegmark is a physicist, cosmologist, and machine learning researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also the scientific direc...

Michael Turner

Theoretical Astrophysicist | Bruce V. & Diana M. Rauner Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, Senior Strategic Advisor, The Kavli Foundation

Michael Turner is a theoretical cosmologist and the Bruce V. & Diana M. Rauner Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He was fo...

Rein Ulijn

Nanochemist | Director, Nanoscience Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Rein Ulijn is the founding director of the Nanoscience Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center of the City Universit...

Cumrun Vafa

2017 Breakthrough Prize Winner, Physicist | Professor of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy, Harvard University

Cumrun Vafa is the Hollis Professor of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy at Harvard University. He received his BS in Math and Physics from MIT in 1...

Mark Van Raamsdonk

Physicist | Professor of Physics, University of British Columbia

Mark Van Raamsdonk is a professor of physics at the University of British Columbia, where he also received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and ph...

Harold Varmus

1989 Nobel Laureate, Oncologist | Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine

Harold Varmus, M.D., co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for studies of the genetic basis of cancer, joined the Meyer Cancer Center of Weill Cornell Medic...

Sara Walker

Astrobiologist | Associate Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University

Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist, researching the origin of life and how to discover life on other worlds. She is developing...

Rai Weiss

2017 Nobel Laureate, Physicist | Professor of Physics, Emeritus, MIT

Rai Weiss is a Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 and the 2016 Kavli Prize...

Stephen Wolfram

Computer Scientist | Founder and CEO, Wolfram Research

Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha and the Wolfram Language; the originator of the Wolfram Physics Project; and the founder ...

Matias Zaldarriaga

2006 MacArthur Fellow, Physicist | Richard Black Professor of Astrophysics, Institute for Advanced Study

Matias Zaldarriaga is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has a Ph.D. from MIT and is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellow...