Dr. Christopher Kavanagh is an Associate Professor in the College of Contemporary Psychology at Rikkyo University and a researcher in cognitive anthropology at the Institute of Cognitive & Evolutionary Anthropology (ICEA) at the University of Oxford. His research interests include East Asian religions, ritual behavior, and the bonding effects of shared dysphoria. More»
Dr. Luke Kemp is Research Affiliate and former Research Associate at the University of Cambridge. He looks at the past (civilization collapses) and future (climate change and emerging technologies) to guide policy in the present. He is an honorary lecturer in environmental policy at the Australian National University (ANU), holds a PhD in international relations from the ANU and was previously a senior economist at Vivid Economics. He is the author of Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse. More»
Helen Pearson is a science journalist, author and Chief Magazine Editor for the journal Nature, where she oversees the journalism and opinion content. Her latest book is Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works. More»
Dr. Carles Lalueza-Fox is Director of the Natural Science Museum in Barcelona. He participated in the Neanderthal Genome Project and led the first retrieval of the genome of an 8,000-year-old European hunter-gatherer. His latest book is Identity: What DNA Can Tell Us About Ourselves. More»
Dr. Paul Thagard is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Cognitive Science Society, and the Association for Psychological Science. The Canada Council awarded him a Molson Prize (2007) and a Killam Prize (2013). He is a philosopher, cognitive scientist, and author of many interdisciplinary books, the latest one being Dreams, Jokes, and Songs: How Brains Build Consciousness. More»
Dr. Michael Mann is Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania, with a secondary appointment in the Annenberg School for Communication. His research focuses on climate science and climate change. He is the author (together with Peter Hotez) of Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World. More»
Nandita Bajaj is the Executive Director of Population Balance, a US nonprofit that works to inspire narrative, behavioral, and system change that shrinks our human impact and elevates the rights and wellbeing of people, animals, and the planet. She is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Humane Education at Antioch University. More»
Dr. Sonia Contera is a Full Professor of Biological Physics at the University of Oxford. She works on physics at the interface of biology, nanotechnology, and information processing. She is an expert in atomic force microscopy of biological systems and has a special interest in the role of mechanics in biology. She is the author of the book "Nano comes to life: How nanotechnology is transforming medicine and the future of biology", and her new book is “Seis problemas que la ciencia no puede resolver” ("Six problems that science cannot solve"). More»
Laura Carroll is a nonfiction author, expert on the childfree choice and pronatalism, and a passionate reproductive rights and ethics advocate. She is the author of The Baby Matrix: Why Freeing Our Minds From Outmoded Thinking About Parenthood & Reproduction Will Create a Better World. More»
Dr. Mauricio Suárez is Full Professor (catedrático) in Logic and Philosophy of Science at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He is also a life member at Clare Hall at Cambridge University. His main research interests lie in the philosophy of probability and causality, the history and philosophy of science (mainly physics, chemistry and biology), modeling and idealization, the aesthetics of scientific representation, and general epistemology and methodology of science. He is the author of Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science. More»
