Massimo Nespolo Name: Massimo Nespolo Country: France What is your background? I hold a MSc in Chemistry from the University of Torino and a DrSc in mineralogy from The University of Tokyo. After a three-year post-doctoral experience at the National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba (Japan), I work, since 2002, at the [...]
Ian Magness Name: Ian Magness Country: UK What is your background? I studied Earth Sciences for my BSc at Imperial College, after which I worked in the geophysics department of an oil company. I became a Fellow of the Geological Society of London although, frankly, I suspect that was less on merit [...]
Tadej Ian Name: Tadej Ian Country: Slovenia What is your background? When I was seven years old, I was already reading between 200 and 300 pages a day. I was reading the entire day, because I was incredibly curious. One day, when I was nine years old, I momentarily ran out of [...]
Patrick Baeuerle Name: Patrick Baeuerle Country: Germany What is your background? I am a molecular biologist, drug developer and serial entrepreneur. I studied biology and biochemistry at the universities of Konstanz and Munich. My master and PhD labwork was at the Max Planck Institute for Neurochemistry in Martinsried and the EMBL in Heidelberg [...]
Christoph Schmidt Name: Christoph Schmidt Country: Germany What is your background? My background is mathematics and theoretical physics. My work on automorphism of free groups was sufficient for a diploma. Most of my life I spent in the IT-industry (IBM, T-Systems and others). I have also been working in the real estate [...]
Douglas Cormack Name: Douglas Cormack Country: UK What is your background? Having obtained a 1st class Honours BSc and a PhD in Physical Chemistry from Glasgow University, I spent 2.5 years at Woodshole in Massachusetts. Thereafter, I joined the UK Scientific Civil Service at my recruitment grade of Senior Scientific Officer. Thereafter, I [...]
Richard W. Hurst Name: Richard W. Hurst Country: USA What is your background? My interest in science began at an early age due to my God-given inquisitive nature. I survived an operation at birth to repair a blocked esophagus that saved my life and, due to my parents’ desire to help future [...]
Jilong Rao Name: Jilong Rao Country: USA What is your background? I realized the harmony of both Eastern and Western moral values in my childhood. Reading taught me influential thinkers from China and the West shared similar ideas about natural philosophy and natural law. In 1957, when I was a sophomore in [...]
Stephen Dartt Name: Stephen Dartt Country: USA What is your background? I earned a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). While at Princeton, I also took every Operations Research (applied statistics) class that was offered. I also [...]
John Carr Name: John Carr Country: France What is your background? I have followed a fairly typical academic career path, following a PhD in experimental physics at Imperial College, London in 1974. I held a number of academic positions around the world before settling in France in 1990 with a CNRS ‘Directeur [...]
