Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford, UK
University of Colorado, USA
Prof. Margaret Murnane is a Fellow of JILA and a member of the Department of Physics at the University of Colorado. She received her B.S and M.S. degrees from University College Cork, and her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989, and joined the faculty of physics at Washington State University in 1990. In 1996, Professor Murnane moved to the University of Michigan, and in 1999 she moved to the University of Colorado. She runs a joint research group and laser company with her husband, Prof. H. Kapteyn. Prof. Murnane's research interests have been in ultrafast optical and x-ray
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Professor O’Shea is VP for Research and Prof of Electrical & Computer Engineering at UMD. Previously, he served as Chair of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Executive Director of the Center for Applied Electromagnetics, Co-Director of the Maryland Cyber Security Center, Director of the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics at the UMD; Project Leader at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and on the faculty of Duke University. Born in Cork, he holds a B.Sc. in Physics from UCC, and M.S. and Ph.D. from the UMD. His expertise includes applied electromagnetics
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Ramon Pascual has been Professor of Physics at the universities of Zaragoza and Autònoma de Madrid, General Director of Universities of the Government of Catalonia and Rector of UAB. Expert in quantum physics and elementary particles, he directed the proposal for the construction, at first on UAB grounds, of a synchrotron facility for scientific use.
Doctor Ramon Pascual presides over the Executive Committee of the consortium that manages the recently inaugurated ALBA synchrotron, the most important scientific facility ever built in Spain. He i
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Professor Richard Milner joined the MIT faculty in 1988, where he served as Director of the Bates Linear Accelerator Center, and now as Director of MIT's Laboratory for Nuclear Science. He received his B.Sc. in 1978 and his M.Sc. in 1979 in Physics from the University College, Cork, Ireland, and his Ph.D., also in Physics, in 1984 from the California Institute of Technology, where he was a Research Fellow from 1985 to 1988.
Rolf-Dieter Heuer is the director general of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Most of his scientific work as a particle physicist has focused on the study of electron-positron reactions, the development of experimental techniques, and the construction and operation of large detector systems. From 2004 to 2008, Heuer was research director for particle and astroparticle physics at the DESY laboratory, a member of the Helmholtz Association. In 1998, Heuer was appointed to a chair at the University of Hamburg, where he set up a working group to prepare experiments at an electron-positron linear
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Described by The Times as both "the world's most enthusiastic man" and an expert on everything from pop music to astrophysics", by the Daily Mail as someone whose "wit and enthusiasm can enliven the dullest of topics", and by the Daily Telegraph as "dauntless", Quentin hosts a diverse range of events in Europe and beyond as well as appearing regularly on radio, TV and in print. He's best know for presenting the UK's most listened to science programme, The Material World on BBC Radio 4 - "the most accessible, funny and conversational science programme on radio" according to The Radio Times, "excellent...a
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Prof. Rob Kitchin is Director of NIRSA, and Chairperson of the Irish Social Sciences Platform. He has published widely across the social sciences, including 20 books and over 100 articles and book chapters. He is editor of the international journals, Progress in Human Geography (ISI rank 2/61) and Dialogues in Human Geography, and for eleven years was the editor of Social and Cultural Geography. He was the editor-in-chief of the 12 volume, International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, and edits two book series, Irish Society and Key Concepts in Geography. He has
... Read morePsychotherapist and writer, UK
Ro Randall is a psychoanalytically trained psychotherapist who has been involved in the environmental movement for many years. She is the originator of the Carbon Conversations project. She has written extensively on the psychology of climate change and runs workshops on climate change communications and community engagement.