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Chiara Marletto

Chiara Marletto is a Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, working at the foundations of physics. Her research spans quantum information theory, quantum biology, condensed-matter physics, and thermodynamics. Together with David Deutsch, she has developed constructor theory — a proposed reformulation of the laws of physics in terms of counterfactuals: what can and…

Daniel Whiteson

Daniel Ofir Whiteson is an American experimental particle physicist and professor of Physics and Astronomy at University of California, Irvine (UCI). He is also the Vice-chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCI and a fellow of the American Physical Society. He earned a bachelor’s degree in physics and computer science from Rice…

Priyamvada Natarajan

Priyamvada “Priya” Natarajan is a theoretical astrophysicist and professor in the departments of astronomy and physics at Yale University. She is the director of the Franke Program in Science and the Humanities. She is noted for her work in mapping dark matter and dark energy, particularly in gravitational lensing and in models describing the assembly…

Janna Levin

Janna Levin is the Claire Tow Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University. She is also the Chair and Founding Director of the Science Studios at Pioneer Works. A Guggenheim Fellow, Levin has contributed to an understanding of black holes, the cosmology of extra dimensions, and gravitational waves in the shape…

Brian Keating

Brian Keating is a public speaker, inventor, and an expert in the study of the universe’s oldest light, the cosmic microwave background (CMB), using it to learn about the origin and evolution of the universe. In 2014, amidst the purported detection of a long-sought signal heralding the “spark that ignited the Big Bang”, Keating was…

Shri Kulkarni

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Roger Blandford

Timothy Ferris

Licia Verde

Licia Verde is an Italian cosmologist and theoretical physicist and currently ICREA Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Barcelona. Her research interests include large-scale structure, dark energy, inflation and the cosmic microwave background. She received a Laurea degree in 1996 from University of Padua and a PhD in 2000 from the University…

Sabine Hossenfelder

Sabine Hossenfelder is an author and theoretical physicist who researches quantum gravity. She is creator and producer of the popular YouTube channel “Science Without the Gobbledygook”. Hossenfelder is presently a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany, and has published more than eighty research articles about the foundations of physics, including quantum gravity,…

Robbert Dijkgraaf

Robbert Dijkgraaf is the Director and Leon Levy professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.  He is a mathematical physicist who has made significant contributions to string theory and the advancement of science education. His research focuses on the interface between mathematics and particle physics. In addition to finding surprising and deep connections…