Edward Witten is an American theoretical physicist and the Charles Simonyi Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study. Witten is a researcher in string theory, quantum gravity, supersymmetric quantum field theories, and other areas of mathematical physics. In addition to his contributions to physics, Witten’s work has significantly impacted…
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 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…
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,…
John Horgan is a science journalist and Director of the Center for Science Writings at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. A former senior writer at Scientific American (1986-1997), he has also written for The New York Times, National Geographic, Time, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Slate, and other publications. He is an online…
Michael Jerome Hopkins is an American mathematician known for work in algebraic topology. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1984 under the direction of Mark Mahowald. In 1984 he also received his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford under the supervision of Ioan James. He has been professor of mathematics at Harvard University…
Jim Holt is a journalist, author in popular science, and essayist. He has contributed to The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The American Scholar, and Slate. In 1997, he was editor of The New Leader, a political magazine. His book Why Does the…
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…
Barry Loewer is a distinguished professor of philosophy at Rutgers University and director of the Rutgers Center for Philosophy and the Sciences. His specialities include philosophy of science, metaphysics, philosophical logic, and philosophy of mind. He received his BA in Philosophy, Mathematics, and Greek from Amherst College. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Stanford…
Tim Maudlin is a philosopher of science and a Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He received his B.A. in Physics and Philosophy from Yale University. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Pittsburgh. His interests are focused in the foundations of physics, metaphysics, and…
Luke A. Barnes is a theoretical astrophysicist, cosmologist, and postdoctoral researcher at Western Sydney University. He received his PhD in Astronomy from the University of Cambridge in 2009. He is a John Templeton Fellow. He has published papers in the fields of galaxy formation and the fine-tuning of the Universe for life. He is the…
Mario Livio is an Israeli-American astrophysicist and an author of works that popularize science and mathematics. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science. From 1991 to 2015, he was an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which conducts the scientific program of the Hubble Space Telescope and the James…