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Joanne Manaster is a Biology lecturer, a video science book reviewer, a New Media Journalist, and a former international model who LOVES science!
Joe DeRisi hunts for the genes that make us sick. At his lab, he works to understand the genome of Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest form of malaria.
Joel Levine studies the atmospheres of Earth and Mars, looking at their origin, evolution, structure and chemistry and climate change. He's the principal investigator of the proposed ARES Mars Airplane Mission.
THE most important writer of interludes, at the period when they were merging into comedy, was John Heywood, choir boy at the Chapel Royal in London, and at one time connected with the production of plays at the court of Henry VII.
John P. Holdren is the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy and Director of the Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, as well as President and Director of the Woods Hole Research Center.
Jonathan Ive, is an English designer and the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc.
Brazilian-born biologist Juliana Machado Ferreira wants, simply, to save the world one bird at a time. She is a TED Senior Fellow.
Justin Hall-Tipping works on nano-energy startups -- mastering the electron to create power.
Keller Rinaudo is a co-founder and CEO of Romotive, building a small, covetable robot.
Currently, Kevin J. Scanlon is using his academic and business experience to mentor creative scientific ideas with good business practices to generate novel medical products
Kevin Surace is looking at the climate crisis from an engineer's perspective -- and creating products that prove there's no piece of our daily lives we can't redesign to be cleaner and greener.
Kit Peixotto directs Education Northwest's Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment Program
Klaus Stadlmann was pursuing his PhD at Vienna's Technical University when a broken laser system gave him some unexpected free time to think.
Kwabena Boahen wants to understand how brains work -- and to build a computer that works like the brain by reverse-engineering the nervous system. His group at Stanford is developing Neurogrid, a hardware platform that will emulate the cortex's inner workings.
Foundation Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics Department, and Director of the Origins Initiative at Arizona State University
Lee Smolin is a theoretical physicist, working mainly in the field of quantum gravity. He's a founding member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada, and the author of The Trouble With Physics.
Oxford's newest science ambassador Marcus du Sautoy is also author of The Times' Sexy Maths column. He'll take you footballing with prime numbers, whopping symmetry groups, higher dimensions and other brow-furrowers.
Our work in suspended animation derives from the fact that many animals exhibit what we call "metabolic flexibility," the ability to dial down their respiration and heartbeat and, in effect, "turn themselves off" in response to physical or environmental stress.
Martin Rees is Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics and Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge.
Marvin Minsky is Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mary M. Brabeck, Ph.D., has served as dean of the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development since 2003.
Michael Gazzaniga believes in a "brain-based philosophy of life." Perhaps that's not surprising—he is, after all, a professor of neuroscience and director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth College.
Lemonick went to Hawaii, he wasn’t there for the beach. Instead, the senior science writer for Time Magazine found in himself atop dormant volcano Mauna Kea at the Keck Observatory, chasing down a story that began billions of years ago.
Michael Merzenich studies neuroplasticity -- the brain's powerful ability to change itself and adapt -- and ways we might make use of that plasticity to heal injured brains and enhance the skills in healthy ones.
Miguel A.L. Nicolelis was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1961. He received an M.D. degree from the University of Sao Paulo Medical School in 1984 and a Ph.D. in physiology in 1988 from the Department of Physiology in the Institute of Biomedical Science at the University of Sao Paulo.
Natalie Jeremijenko blends art, engineering, environmentalism, biochemistry and more to create real-life experiments that enable social change.
Dr. Nathan Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, has been on the faculty at the California Institute of Technology since 1988 and has served as Professor since 1991.
Nick Bostrom, director of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, specializes in the big questions: What does it mean to be human? If we could live forever, would we choose to? Can we improve our human nature with technological enhancements?
Nikki Shechtman is a senior researcher at SRI International. Her work focuses on using dynamic representational technology to support mathematics learning, engagement, and motivation in the clasroom.
Nina Jablonski is author of Skin: A Natural History, a close look at human skin's many remarkable traits: its colors, its sweatiness, the fact that we decorate it.
Nina Tandon studies ways to use electrical signals to grow artificial tissues for transplants and other therapies.
Patricia Burchat studies the structure and distribution of dark matter and dark energy. These mysterious ingredients can't be measured in conventional ways, yet form a quarter of the mass of our universe.
Patricia Galloway has been a member of the National Science Board (NSB) since 2006, and is the chief executive officer of Pegasus Global Holdings, Inc.
Paul Debevec's digital inventions have powered the breathtaking visual effects in films like The Matrix, Superman Returns, King Kong and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
After years of studying illness from the germs' point of view, microbiologist Paul Ewald believes that Big Pharma is wrong about some very big issues. What's right? The leader in evolutionary medicine posits radical new approaches.
Through his life, Paul MacCready turned his mind, energy and heart toward his two passions: flight and the Earth.
Dr. Moller founded the Company and has served as the company's President since its formation.
Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Bioethics, Raymond Schinazi Distinguished Research Professor of Jewish Bioethics, Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Sociology, and the Director of the Center for Ethics at Emory University; Senior Bioethicist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Surely not the only science career based on a museum tour epiphany, Paul Sereno's is almost certainly the most triumphant. He's dug up dinosaurs on five continents -- and discovered the world's largest crocodile, the (extinct) 40-foot Sarchosuchus.
Pawan Sinha researches how our brains interpret what our eyes see -- and uses that research to give blind children the gift of sight.
Penelope Boston studies caves and karst formations, and the special biology that lives in them -- both here on Earth and possibly on other planets.
Peter Donnelly is an expert in probability theory who applies statistical methods to genetic data -- spurring advances in disease treatment and insight on our evolution. He's also an expert on DNA analysis, and an advocate for sensible statistical analysis in the courtroom.
Peter D. Ward studies life on Earth -- where it came from, how it might end, and how utterly rare it might be.
Philip Zimbardo was the leader of the notorious 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment -- and an expert witness at Abu Ghraib. His book The Lucifer Effect explores the nature of evil; now, in his new work, he studies the nature of heroism.
TED Fellow Rachel Armstrong researches "metabolic materials" -- construction materials that possess some of the properties of living systems, and can be manipulated to "grow" architecture.
Rachel Pike studies climate change at the molecular level -- tracking how emissions from biofuel crops react with the air to shape weather trends globally.
Randy J. Hinrichs, Group Program Manager, Learning Sciences and Technology Initiatives, Microsoft Research
Rebecca Saxe studies how we think about other people's thoughts. At the Saxelab at MIT, she uses fMRI to identify what happens in our brains when we consider the motives, passions and beliefs of others.
Robert J. Lang has been an avid student of origami for over forty years and is now recognized as one of the world's leading masters of the art, with over 500 designs catalogued and diagrammed.
Romulus Whitaker is a scientist and conservationist who slings around the globe to study and protect reptiles.
Dr. Rosina M. Bierbaum was confirmed as the Associate Director for Environmentin the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on July 30, 1998.
Sanjay Dastoor is co-founder of Boosted Boards, a startup that aims to build the world's lightest electric vehicles.
Sebastian Thrun is the director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab and is working, through robotics, to change the way we understand the world.
Shannon Brownlee uncovers a health care system that wastes a staggering amount on costly treatments that do little to improve our health -- and which may actually be dangerous. (She estimates about a third of every dollar, about $700 billion a year, is wasted).
Sheila Nirenberg studies how the brain encodes information -- possibly allowing us to decode it, and maybe develop prosthetic sensory devices.
Steven Cowley directs the UK's leading fusion research center. Soon he'll helm new experiments that may make cheap fusion energy real on a commercial scale.
Steven Strogatz is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University, and is currently Director of the Center for Applied Mathematics.
I'm a contributing editor at Discover magazine and the series editor of The Best American Science and Nature Writing.
A doctor and engineer, Todd Kuiken builds new prosthetics that connect with the human nervous system. Yes: bionics.
Thomas Kalil is currently the Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Science and Technology at UC Berkeley.
Described as "a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all life's diversity"
William F. Joyce is Professor of Strategy and Organization Science at the Amos Tuck School of Business of Dartmouth College.
Woody Norris is a serial inventor of electronics, tools and cutting-edge sonic equipment -- such as the LRAD acoustic cannon.
Ainissa G. Ramirez, Ph.D. is a science evangelist and lecturer of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science at Yale University
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