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Dr. Don Lincoln is a Senior Scientist at Fermilab, America’s leading particle physics laboratory, who has coauthored over 1,500 scientific papers. He was a member of the teams that discovered[…]
Cathy O’Neil earned a Ph.D. in math from Harvard and worked as a math professor at Barnard College before switching over to the private sector, working as a quant for[…]
Jim is a multiple award-winning science communicator renowned for his public engagement around the world through writing and broadcasting and a leading academic making fundamental contributions to theoretical physics, particularly[…]
Dr. Francis Su is the Benediktsson-Karwa Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College and a former president of the Mathematical Association of America. In 2013, he received the Haimo Award,[…]
Stefan has dedicated his career to designing and researching sustainable and resilient built environments that improve the quality of life for everyone. With more than fifteen years of experience on[…]
Nate Anderson is the deputy editor at Condé Nast’s Ars Technica. He is the author of The Internet Police: How Crime Went Online, and the Cops Followed, and lives in[…]
Dr. Gordon Pennycook is an Assistant Professor at University of Regina's Hill/Levene Schools of Business. He obtained his PhD in Cognitive Psychology in 2016 at the University of Waterloo. Prior[…]
Brian Butterworth is Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology at University College London, Adjunct Professor at National Cheng Chi University, Taiwan, Professorial Fellow at Melbourne University, Australia, and Research Consultant at[…]
James Burke is a world-renowned science historian and science communicator, perhaps best known for his TV series Connections. He is also the author of several books. (Photo credit: Andrea Mann[…]
Mohamed Suliman is a senior disinformation researcher at Northeastern University's Civic AI Lab. He holds a degree in engineering from the University of Khartoum.
Peter Ward studied journalism at the University of Sheffield before moving to Dubai, where he reported on the energy sector. After three years in the Middle East, he earned his[…]
As a physician, writer, and clinical researcher, Haider Warraich wears many hats. He writes frequently for the New York Times and the Washington Post, and has also written for the[…]
Will Lockett is a British writer and ex-engineer who is passionate about cutting-edge technology, the burgeoning space industry, and revolutionary ways to fight climate change.
Dr. Will Gervais is an assistant professor of social psychology and director of the Belief and Morality Lab (BAM!). He is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Culture and[…]
Named a "Rising Star" by the Association for Psychological Science, Dr. Steph Cacioppo is the Director of the Brain Dynamics Laboratory at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.[…]
Gary Gerstle arrived in Cambridge in 2014 after a three-decade career in the United States, most recently at Vanderbilt University where he was James G. Stahlman Professor of American History.[…]
Thomas Buonomo is an independent consultant with expertise in Middle East affairs, geopolitics, and religious nationalism. His writing on diplomacy; conflict prevention, management, and resolution; the link between trauma and[…]
Dr. Leor Roseman is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Psychedelic Research, Imperial College London, where he also received his PhD and MRes, under the supervision of Dr. Robin[…]
Iain McGilchrist is a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a Fellow of[…]
Dr. Ken Ginsburg is a Professor of Pediatrics and an Adolescent Medicine Specialist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He is the[…]
Jamie Merisotis, an international leader in higher education, human work, philanthropy, and public policy, has been Lumina’s president and CEO since 2008. Before joining Lumina, he was an advisor and[…]
Dr. Dirk Schulze-Makuch received his Ph.D. in geosciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Afterwards he took up a fellowship at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, worked as Assistant Professor[…]
Kevin Vost, Psy.D., obtained his Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Adler University with internship and dissertation at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine’s Alzheimer Center. He has served as[…]
Oded Galor is Herbert Goldberger Professor of Economics at Brown University. He is the founder of Unified Growth Theory and has contributed to the understanding of the process of development[…]
Courtney Brown, Ph.D, is vice president of impact and planning for Lumina Foundation, an independent, private foundation in Indianapolis that is committed to making opportunities for learning beyond high school[…]
Dr. Nick Chater joined Warwick Business School in 2010, after holding chairs in psychology at Warwick and UCL. He has over 200 publications, has won four national awards for psychological[…]
Agustín Fuentes, a Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, focuses on the biosocial, delving into the entanglement of biological systems with the social and cultural lives of humans, our ancestors, and a few of the other animals with whom humanity shares close relations.
Dr. Nicholas Mulder works on European and international history from 1870 to the present. His research focuses on political, economic, and intellectual history, with particular attention to the era of the[…]