Sabine Hossenfelder is an author and theoretical physicist who researches quantum gravity. She is creator and producer of the YouTube channel “Science Without the Gobbledygook”. She is the author of Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, which explores the concept of elegance in fundamental physics and cosmology, and her latest book, Existential Physics:…
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…
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…
Menachem Fisch is Joseph and Ceil Mazer Professor of History and Philosophy of Science emeritus, and Director of the Center for Religious and Interreligious Studies at Tel Aviv University. He is former President of the Israel Society for History and Philosophy of Science, and former Chair of the National Committee for History and Philosophy of…
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…