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Nancy Andreasen

David Baltimore

Roger Blandford

Sherwin Nuland

Paul Abramson

Vern Bullough

Arthur S. De Vany

Robert Trivers

Robert Ludlow Trivers is an American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist. Trivers proposed the theories of reciprocal altruism, parental investment, facultative sex ratio determination, and parent–offspring conflict. He has also contributed by explaining self-deception as an adaptive evolutionary strategy and discussing intragenomic conflict.  

V.S. Ramachandran

V.S. Ramachandran is a Distinguished Professor in UCSD’s Department of Psychology, where he is the director of the Center for Brain and Cognition. Ramachandran is known for his wide-ranging experiments and theories in behavioral neurology, including the invention of the mirror box.  After earning a medical degree in India, Ramachandran studied experimental neuroscience at Cambridge,…

Martin Nowak

Martin Andreas Nowak is an Austrian-born mathematical biologist and the author of several books.  Nowak studied at the Albertus Magnus Gymnasium in Vienna. He attended the University of Vienna, and earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry and mathematics in 1989, working with Peter Schuster on quasi-species theory and with Karl Sigmund on evolution of cooperation. He…

Jennifer Mather

Jennifer Mather is Professor of Psychology at the University of Lethbridge. She received a B.A. in Biology from University of British Columbia in 1964, a M.Sc. in Biology from Florida State University in 1972 and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Brandeis University in Boston in 1978. Mather held a Research Assistant Professor position as a…

Suzanne Hanser

Suzanne B Hanser, EdD, MT-BC is Professor and Chair Emerita of the Music Therapy Department at Berklee College of Music. Hanser is Past President of both the World Federation of Music Therapy and the National Association for Music Therapy. She established the music therapy program at the Leonard P. Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies at…