Professor of Computational Microbiology at University of Oxford

Author of The Universal History of Us published by Penguin 2024 Professor of Zoology, University of Oxford EcologyEvolution, Existence, Science

Addy is an Emeritus Professor at the department of Chemistry: Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel.

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Christopher Summerfield is Fellow by special election and principal investigator at the Summerfield lab which conducts research into how humans make decisions. Chris Summerfield was trained in psychology and neuroscience at University College London, Columbia University (New York), and the École normale supérieure (Paris). He is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the department of Experimental Psychology, where he heads a lab focussed on understanding the computational mechanisms by which humans make decisions, and how these processes are implemented in the brain. His work, which involves a combination of computer simulations, behavioural testing, and functional brain imaging, is funded by a grants from the European Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, and the National Institute of Health.

I work at the interface of animal behavior, population biology, and community ecology to address basic and applied questions in ecology and conservation. I began my research career in 1995 as a field technician in Yellowstone National Park where I assisted with wolf reintroduction and post-release wolf monitoring. I have conducted research related to Yellowstone wolves ever since. Much of my research centers on understanding the ecological consequences of wolf reintroduction as part of several long-term, collaborative studies of carnivores, ungulates, and plants in northern Yellowstone National Park. Many of my findings are presented in my co-authored/edited books Wolves on the Hunt: The Behavior of Wolves Hunting Wild Prey, and Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

David Baker is an American biochemist and computational biologist who has pioneered methods to design proteins and predict their three-dimensional structures. He is the Henrietta and Aubrey Davis Endowed Professor in Biochemistry, an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and an adjunct professor of genome sciences, bioengineering, chemical engineering, computer science, and physics at the University of Washington. He was awarded the shared 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on computational protein design.

Gordon Sanghera is co-founder of Oxford Nanopore with Spike Willcocks and Hagan Bayley. He was appointed CEO in May 2005 and has led the company through multiple finance rounds, and in 2021, a listing on the London Stock Exchange. The company has developed a new generation of nanopore-based sensing technology. The first products enable the real-time, high-performance, accessible and scalable analysis of DNA and RNA, and this new class of sensing has the potential to expand into proteomics and metabolomics.

Dr Lakmal Jayasinghe is the Chief Scientific Officer at Oxford Nanopore Technologies, where he leads the company's scientific vision, driving groundbreaking research and development to advance innovation in nanopore sequencing and its transformative applications.

I am a multidisciplinary researcher with a background in visual arts, anthropology, and biology. I am interested in animal culture, using sound to understand animal behaviour and ecology, applied machine learning, open research, and data visualisation. My current research involves large-scale acoustic monitoring of biodiversity, and I spent most of my time programming or in the field.

Professor Milner-Gulland is interested in understanding how social, ecological and behavioural factors interact and how they affect key issues in current conservation.

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Leah Gerber is a professor of conservation science in the School of Life Sciences and founding director of the Center for Biodiversity Outcomes (CBO) at Arizona State University. Gerber’s research, teaching, and leadership advance the integration of science in decision processes to achieve sustainable biodiversity outcomes

Lee Smolin is a theoretical physicist who has been since 2001 a founding and senior faculty member at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. His main contributions have been so far to the quantum theory of gravity, to which he has been a co-inventor and major contributor to two major directions, loop quantum gravity and deformed special relativity.

Philipp Kukura FRSC is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He is best known for pioneering contributions to femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy, interferometric scattering microscopy and the development of mass photometry.

Ben C. Sheldon is the Luc Hoffmann Chair in Field Ornithology and Director of the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology of the University of Oxford's Department of Zoology. He was Head of the Department of Zoology between 2016 and 2021. His research addresses causes and consequences of individual variation in wild populations, particularly of birds. He was awarded the 2020 Linnean Medal for "his service to science in the field of Zoology", and elected as Fellow of the Royal Society in 2022.SOTT Episode 5 _Audio Master

Director Palaeogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network Brasenose College

Paul is the author of the popular science book, The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science (Indigo Press, 2021) which describes humanity’s current trajectory and possible futures in paired chapters of pessimism and hope. His research and writing on climate, energy, and food, has appeared in scientific journals and media outlets such as the BBC, The Guardian, Thomson Reuters, Politico, Nature Sustainability, Nature Energy, PNAS, Nature Food, and Nature Communications. He is an editor and author of the interdisciplinary textbook Food and Sustainability (Oxford University Press, 2020). Paul won International Champion in the Frontiers Planet Prize in 2023.

Peter Hudson was the first to demonstrate that the boom and bust cycles of red grouse populations were linked to their infection with a parasitic worm. In his classic study he gathered evidence through an inventive series of field experiments, treating individually identified birds with antiparasitic drugs and measuring their breeding success. He has gone on to explore how infection affects population ecology in a broad range of hosts, and under different conditions of climate, predation and food supply. Peter’s interests extend from the spread of infection through wild populations to the transmission of diseases to humans. He received the 2005 Carlton Herman Award from the US Wildlife Disease Association. He was elected Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2010 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012. He was given an Honorary Degree by Queen Mary University of London in 2014.

Robbie is a Professor of Performance Biology at one of Australia’s top universities and multiple winner of prestigious research and university teaching awards. He works with some of the world’s best youth academies and football organisations to improve talent ID and player development.

Sara is a professor of planetary sciences and leader of the Planetary Materials Group at the Natural History Museum, London. She is a Fellow of the Meteoritical Society and of the Royal Astronomical Society.

My project is focused on using de novo TIM barrels scaffolds to create novel metalloenzymes

Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine Center for Antibody Technologies