David Baltimore
Patricia S. Churchland
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.
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…
Antonio Damasio
Antonio Damasio is the David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience, as well as Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neurology, at the University of Southern California. He was previously the chair of neurology at the University of Iowa for 20 years. Damasio heads the Brain and Creativity Institute, and has authored several books: his most recent work,…
Daniel Chamovitz
Daniel Chamovitz is an American-born plant geneticist and the 7th President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva, Israel. Previously he served as Dean of the George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and the director of the multidisciplinary Manna Center Program in Food Safety and Security. He began…
Semir Zeki
Semir Zeki is a British neurobiologist who has specialized in studying the primate visual brain and the neural correlates of affective states, such as the experience of love, desire, and beauty that are generated by sensory inputs within the field of neuroesthetics. He was educated at University College London (UCL), where he was Henry Head…
Michael Murray
Michael J. Murray oversees the program departments of the John Templeton Foundation. Before joining the Foundation, he was the Arthur and Katherine Shadek Humanities Professor of Philosophy at Franklin and Marshall College. He received his BA from Franklin and Marshall and his MA and Ph.D from the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on…
Tom McLeish
Tom McLeish was Emeritus Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of York. Elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2011, he chaired its Education Committee. He was also a Senior Associate of Pembroke College, Oxford, and a former fellow of Emmanuel College Cambridge. After a first degree in physics and PhD in polymer physics…
Michael Ruse
Michael Escott Ruse FRSC was a British-born Canadian philosopher of science who specialized in the philosophy of biology and worked on the relationship between science and religion, the creation–evolution controversy, and the demarcation problem within science. Before coming to Florida State in 2000, Michael taught at the University of Guelph for 35 years. He received…