PARTICIPANTS
Ananthaswamy, Anil
Anil Ananthaswamy is a consultant for the London-based New Scientist magazine. He got his Bachelor's degree in electronics engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India and his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, and trained as a journalist at the University of California Santa Cruz.
Anil has worked at New Scientist in various capacities since 2000, including as staff writer, physics news editor and deputy news editor. He focuses on physics, neuroscience and climate change. Anil won the UK Institute of Physics' inaugural physics journalism award in February for his feature on the Square Kilometre Array. His writings have also appeared in National Geographic News, Discover magazine, The Independent (UK), The Times Online (UK). He is a columnist for PBS NOVA's The Nature of Reality blog.
In March 2010, Anil published 'The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe.' The book was long-listed for the UK's Dolman Travel Book of the Year award, and was voted the Book of the Year 2010 by UK's Physics World. 'The Edge of Physics' has been translated into six foreign languages.
Anil is a guest lecturer at the UC Santa Cruz science writing program, and also teaches an annual science journalism workshop at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, India.
Aparici, Alberto
I'm a theoretical particle physicist, currently preparing my PhD defense on the investigation of neutrino properties at the LHC and other high-energy experiments. I have a broad range of interests, from history of science to quantum field theory and systems biology, but I aim to direct my career to science communication. I think it's fundamental for a modern society that science gets a place on the media and people feel it as just another piece of public life, together with politics, economy or sports; for this purpose it's very important that scientists themselves get involved in science communication. I give talks at schools about modern topics in science and I run a small science section in La Brujula, a news program broadcasted on Spanish radio station Onda Cero. You can find me on Twitter (mostly in Spanish) as @cienciabrujula.
Barrow, John D.
John D. Barrow FRS is Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge University and Director of the Millennium Mathematics Project, a programme to improve the teaching, learning and appreciation of mathematics and it applications. He is has also been the Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London and is also a former Gresham Professor of Astronomy. His research interests are in cosmology, gravitation physics and the interface between particle physics and astronomy.
He received many awards, including the 2006 Templeton Prize, the Royal Society's 2008 Faraday Prize and the 2009 Kelvin Medal of the Institute of Physics. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the Academia Europaea. He has written more than 480 scientific papers, and 221 books, translated into 28 languages, together with many popular science articles. His recent books include Cosmic Imagery and 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know and his latest title, The Book of Universes appeared in February 2011. His play, Infinities, won the Italian Premi Ubu for best play in the Italian theatre in 2002, and the 2003 Italgas Prize.
Bojs, Karin
Karin Bojs is a science journalist and author. For many years she was Dagens Nyheter's science editor. Recently, she ended up as an employee in order to devote more time to writing books, but she still writes for Dagens Nyheter on a freelance basis. During her journalistic career, she got an honorary doctorate from Stockholm University and received several major awards, including Knowledge Award, awarded by the National Encyclopedia and Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences Media Award. In 1994, she founded the Swedish section of Reporters Without Borders, an international organization that promotes press freedom.
Brandenburg, Axel
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Davour, Anna My background is in experimental particle physics and the search for dark matter. I have worked with the AMANDA neutrino telescope, and the PICASSO experiment at SNOLab in Canada. Since then I have got a degree in journalism, and I have worked for the science department of the Swedish public service radio, Sveriges Radio. I also write for the astronomy magazine Populär Astronomi.
Di Giorgio, Claudia
I'm managing editor of Le Scienze, Italian edition of Scientific American, where I work since 2003 after many years as a freelance science journalist for paper newspapers and radio programs. As a space buff, I've been blogging on space & space policies in Italian since 2007 (Storie Spaziali) and I tweet, mostly on space, in Italian & English, as @Cla_dG
Fischer, Daniel
Daniel Fischer, born 1964 in Bonn, Germany, has been an astronomy writer and popularizer for the past 30+ years, initially writing for magazines and publishing his own printed newsletter as well as contributing to several books, and lately also getting increasingly active in electronic media where e.g. said newsletter has since migrated to skyweek.wordpress.com. Fischer was on the coordinating board of the International Year of Astronomy in Germany and loves to go on astronomical expeditions, for eclipses of all kinds, comets, meteor outbursts and the aurora. While his interests in astronomy and space science are 'universal' they somehow seem to be attracted by subjects beginning with 'Ko' in German or 'co' in English: comets, (the solar) corona and cosmology ...
Freistetter, Florian
Florian Freistetter studied astronomy at the University of Vienna and worked as astronomer at the Universities of Vienna, Jena and Heidelberg. Blogger since 2008; fulltime-writer since 2011. Author of the Blog "Astrodicticum Simplex" on astronomy and science. Author of three books on popular astronomy and of several articles in popular media and journals. Interested in new ways to communicate complicated science to the general public; especially young people and children.
Geens, Steffen
I have an MA in political science from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and an early career as a financial journalist in New York. After moving to Sweden in 2002, I worked on digital public diplomacy projects for the Swedish government, culminating in projects aimed at Arab and Chinese audiences, for which I worked and lived several years in Cairo and Shanghai.
For as long as I can remember, I have also been an avid amateur astronomer and a fan of astrophysics. For the past 7 years I've written OgleEarth.com, which chronicles the impact of networked digital maps and geospatial imagery on science and society. Some of the content there involves expository science writing, but it also occasionally veers into viral citizen-science -- most recently when I attempted a trajectory calculation of the Chelyabinsk meteor based on the shadows in YouTube videos. That method ended up being co-opted by professional astronomers and led to a co-authored paper on arXiv.
Green, Anne
Anne Green is an Associate Professor and Reader of physics at the University of Nottingham, UK. She has a BA in Physics from the University of Oxford and a DPhil in early Universe cosmology from the University of Sussex. She held postdoctoral positions in the Astronomy Unit at Queen Mary, University of London and the Field and Particle group at Stockholm University before returned to the UK with a 5 year Advanced Fellowship. Her research interests lie at the interface between astrophysics and particle physics. The main focus of her current research is the search for dark matter, in particular the signals expected in WIMP direct detection experiments and their dependence on the dark matter distribution. She is also interested in early Universe cosmology. She was a founding member of the UK Institute Of Physics Astroparticle Physics group and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. She regularly participates in, and organises, outreach activities including public lectures, schools talks and masterclasses. She lives in Chesterfield, UK with her partner (who is an astronomer) and their elderly, bad tempered pet rabbit. When not doing physics she likes to run very long distances, very slowly and travel to interesting/unusual places.
Hebden, Sophie
Sophie Hebden is a freelance science writer specialising in space and quantum physics. Her feature articles have been published by the Foundational Questions Institute and the New Scientist magazine, and she has recently done podcasting for fQXi. She worked previously for SciDev.Net, first as news desk assistant and then news editor, and also in the Nature press office. She has a PhD in space plasma physics from the University of Leicester and an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College. She lives in Mansfield, near Nottingham, UK, with her husband and two small daughters. sophiehebden.wordpress.com
Hofmann, Stefan
Stefan is a Cosmologist working at the Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany. He is also a member of the Cluster of Excellence for Fundamental Physics funded by the German Research Council, as well as a principal investigator of the transregional collaborative research centre Tr33 "The Dark Universe".
Stefan has broad scientific interests in all of modern theoretical physics, in particular at the interface of the quantum theory of fields and general relativity, effective field theory and physics beyond the standard models of particle physics and relativity.
Hossenfelder, Sabine
Sabine is an assistant professor at Nordita in Stockholm. She works mainly on the phenomenology of quantum gravity, and occasionally on modifications of General Relativity or the foundations of quantum mechanics. Sabine writes a blog called "Backreaction" and thinks that scientists don't take public outreach seriously enough.
Jayawardhana, Ray
Ray Jayawardhana is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Observational Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, where he also serves as the Senior Advisor to the President on Science Engagement. A graduate of Yale and Harvard, he uses many of the world's largest telescopes to explore planetary origins and diversity. He is the coauthor of nearly 100 papers in scientific journals. His discoveries have made headlines worldwide, including in The Economist, Washington Post, New York Times, Globe and Mail, Sydney Morning Herald, BBC, NPR and CBC, and have led to numerous accolades such as the Steacie Prize, the McLean Award, and the Radcliffe Fellowship. He is an award-winning writer whose articles have appeared in The Economist, New York Times, Globe and Mail, Scientific American, Astronomy, Muse, and more. His last book, Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life Beyond Our Solar System (2011), was a finalist for the Lane Anderson Award and the basis of "The Planet Hunters" television documentary on the CBC. His next book, Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe, is expected to be released later this year. An avid traveler, he has visited over 50 countries and all seven continents.
Koponen, Laura
I work for the Finnish magazine Tähdet ja avaruus (Stars and Space), which is a popular science magazine focused on astronomy and related sciences. With about 70 000 readers it is one of the largest popular science magazines in Finland. My work includes a lot of editing but also writing my own articles. My special interest areas are cosmology and physics. I also have an academic background in computational and theoretical physics.
Leino, Raili
I found my dream job and dream team early. I really cannot think about anything more interesting than to write about science and technology, and Technology&Business is the best place to do it.
Born 1954. Studied in Helsinki university 1973-1980: Physics, mathematics, geophysics and basics of computer science, astronomy and theoretical physics. Started working as a journalist in 1979 at the Finnish National Radio company. Worked as freelancer for different media. Started as a staff member in Technology and Business Magazine in 1984 (at that time it was called Engineering News), which is the sister magazine of the Swedish Ny Teknik. Been there since, except for shorter periods in other media of the same company Talentum Media Oy. Presstek, The Technology Journalists of Finland, member since 1994, member of the board since 2000 Fasej, Finnish Association of Science Editors and Journalists, member since 2002, member of the board since 2004, president 2009-2011, vice president 2012- Finnish Business Journalists, member since 2004 Finnish Environmental Journalists, member since 2010.
Losada, Illa Rivero
I am a PhD student at Nordita, under the supervision of Axel Brandenburg. I am working now within the VR-supported project on the "Formation of active regions in the Sun". The goal of this project is to develop the foundations of a radically new suggestion for the formation of active regions in the Sun. I did my Master and my degree studies at the Canary Islands (Spain), where I was involved in a cosmology project regarding the inhomogeneities in the University and how can affect the distances measurement. I also worked as a telescope operator in El Teide Observatory (Canary Islands, Spain) for two years.
Lozano, Ernesto
I got my PhD in theoretical physics from Autonoma University of Madrid in 2003. Then I held a three year-postdoctoral position at the department of particle physics of the Weizmann Institute of Science, in Israel. I quit academia in 2006. Since 2010 I am the physics and math editor of Investigacion y Ciencia, the Spanish edition of Scientific American.
Musser, George George Musser is a contributing editor for Scientific American magazine in New York. Like many science writers, he stumbled into profession almost by accident, having previously thought of science and writing as two distinct sides of his life. While a student studying engineering and mathematics, and then planetary geophysics, he moonlighted as a newspaper reporter and columnist, covering topics ranging from architecture to crack cocaine. In 1994 he applied for -- and, to his amazement, got -- a job as editor of Mercury magazine, published by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, a science and science-education nonprofit based in San Francisco. He worked there until 1998, when he became a senior editor at Scientific American. He left the full-time magazine staff in 2012 to focus on a book about the nature of space and time. Musser received the 2011 Science Writing Award from the American Institute of Physics and 2010 Jonathan Eberhart Planetary Sciences Journalism Award from the American Astronomical Society. He was the originator and one of the lead editors for the single-topic issue "A Matter of Time" (September 2002), which won a National Magazine Award for editorial excellence. His first book, The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory, was published by Alpha in 2008.
Nemiroff, Robert J.
Nemiroff obtained a Ph D. in astronomy and astrophysics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1987. He worked as a postdoc at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, USA before becoming a Professor of Physics at Michigan Technological University, USA. He is perhaps best known scientifically for papers predicting, usually among others, several recovered microlensing phenomena, and papers showing, usually among others, that gamma-ray bursts were consistent with occurring at cosmological distances. He led a group that developed and deployed the first online fisheye night sky monitor, deploying later models to most major astronomical observatories. He co-created the Astrophysics Source Code Library (ascl.net) open repository. In terms of science writing, he is perhaps best known as a co-creator and editor of the Astronomy Picture of the Day (apod.nasa.gov) website. His current research interests include trying to limit attributes of our universe with distant gamma-ray bursts, and trying to develop a sky monitoring smartphone application.
Reed, Christina
Christina Reed is the Earth producer for Discovery News and the author of the books Earth Science: Decade by Decade and Marine Science: Decade by Decade, published as part of Facts on File's 20th-century science history series. She has worked as a freelance science journalist writing for Scientific American, New Scientist, Science, and Nature.
In the summer of 2003, Reed worked as the science coordinator for Aliens of the Deep. As part of her job, she ventured 1,000 meters underwater to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean with Director James Cameron using the Russian Mir 1 submersible. For the movie, she helped document extreme life at hydrothermal vents.
Reed's other at-sea expeditions include working as the daily science reporter for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's month-long Dive and Discover Cruise around the Galapagos Islands on the Scripps R/V Roger Revelle. Her graduate work at Columbia University also took her out to sea for a month in the North Atlantic on the WHOI R/V Knorr. She was also a contestant in The Learning Channel's 'Escape from Experiment Island' reality television show, which filmed on the island of Rum in Scotland. She is currently living in Paris, France, where she spent two years working as a communications consultant for the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission at the United Nations Education Science and Cultural Organization.
Rose, Joanna
Joanna Rose is a science journalist and editor at the Forskning och Framsteg magazine. Her main fields of interest are astronomy, physics and philosophy. She has been working in the field since 1987, sharing her time between print press and the Swedish Radio, where she for five years was a producer and host for Filosofiska Rummet, a weekly program on philosophy.
Sahlen, Martin
Dr. Martin Sahlen is a post-doctoral fellow at the Beecroft Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, University of Oxford, working at the intersection of theoretical and observational cosmology. Current research interests include tests of fundamental assumptions, non-standard gravitational theories, and dark energy, based on observations of the large-scale structure and cosmic microwave background in the Universe. Among other outreach activities, he collaborates with artists on the communication of scientific understanding.
Schirber, Michael
I am an American freelance science writer and editor, who's been working in Lyon, France, for the past six years. I have written for Science, Physics World and Space.com. I currently do a lot of work for the American Physical Society. I love physics, but I have an ongoing fascination with astrobiology.
Schliephake, Michael
I am a systems expert at PDC, the High Performance Computing Center of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. The work in a group that operates some of Sweden's largest computers, to carry out computer science research with advanced simulation codes, and some teaching is at the heart of the activities there.
Beside it, I am very interested in modern astrophysics, science history, and how to communicate everything should it be about computing or astronomy to students and other curious people.
Sollerman, Jesper
Jesper Sollerman is professor in astronomy at Stockholm University. His research focus on supernovae, gamma-ray bursts and cosmology. He is chair of the Swedish Astronomical Society that conduct a lot of outreach activites and issues the swedish astronomy-magazine Populär Astronomi. Sollerman occasionally also act as a science writer.
Spataro, Giovanni
Giovanni Spataro, editor for Le Scienze, the Italian edition of Scientific American. My blog spataro-lescienze.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it about science in developing countries and global issues.
Sutton, Patrick
I've been a committed nerd since childhood. I've always been fascinated by the "big questions" of science, such as the big bang, black holes, and theories of everything, and I decided on a career in physics while still a teenager. I did my PhD studies on the frozen prairies of western Canada, at the University of Alberta, where I studied the behaviour of quantum field theories in curved spacetimes. (It seemed interesting at the time.) After graduating in 2000 I moved into gravitational-wave research with postdoctoral stints at the Pennsylvania State University and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). I joined the faculty of Cardiff University in 2007.
My research focuses on the detection and study of gravitational waves from colliding black holes, exploding stars, and other violent phenomena in the universe. I carry out my research as a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, a team of more than 800 researchers worldwide, and I'm proud to serve as co-chair of one of the largest LIGO working groups for gravitational-wave detection. I've found the jump from small science to big science to be remarkably rewarding, and it's exciting to be a part of such a vibrant and growing field.
Tjärnlund, Nils Johan
Nils Johan Tjärnlund is a Science Writer working regularly for radio and press since 2001, although he wrote his first article in the daily Sundsvalls Tidning already in 1993. He was educated at Uppsala University (studies in history, classical history and latin) and Mid Sweden University (studies in journalism).
Tjärnlund is a Science Contributor for The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. It is one of the largest financiers of research in Sweden with annual grants of around 700 million SEK. Among other clients are The Royal Court with The Royal Foundations, Centrum för Näringslivshistoria (The Center for Business History in Stockholm), Spraktidningen and Populär historia. Tjärnlund is a Science Contributor for the news magazine Fokus regularly since its launch in December 2005. Tjärnlund is also project leader for the Stenstaden Visitor Center in Sundsvall.
He has been affiliated with the Science Department of Swedish Radio since 2001, five years as a member of the editorial staff and from 2006 as free contributor. During that time he has produced more than 300 broadcasts. That includes working as editor and host of the popular midday programme 'Vetandets värld', covering science-in-general, and as editor and host of 'Vetandets världs gränstrakter', dealing with issues in the burning point between science and humanities.
He has also covered the annual Nobel prizes in science. In 2006 he was producer and host of 'Vetenskapsradion Forum', covering arts and humanities and social sciences. He also produced 'Under stjärnorna', an astronomy show discussing new fields in space research and historical perspectives on famous astronomer Tycho Brahe.
In 2009 Tjärnlund published a book describing the architecture of the beautiful Stenstaden, the astonishingly well-preserved town centre of Sundsvall created in the 1890s after a devastating fire. Since then he has published two additional books on Sundsvall. He has received several scholarships, among those grants from Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse, Författarförbundet, Journalistfonden, Polska institutet (The Polish Institute in Stockholm), Vetenskapsradet (The Swedish Research Council) and Byggnadsföreningen i Stockholm. In 2005 he was a co-recipient of Kunskapspriset from Nationalencyklopedin (250.000 SEK) "for submitting Swedish listeners with exciting and in-depth reports from the scientific field".
Nils Johan Tjärnlund was born in Sundsvall in 1978 and shares his time between an apartment in the beautiful Stenstaden and an apartment in the historical surroundings of the famous Linnaeus Garden in central Uppsala.
Vaas, Rüdiger
Rudy Vaas is astronomy and physics editor of the monthly popular science magazine Bild der Wissenschaft in Germany. Additionally, he is the author of many books about cosmology and quantum gravity. He also wrote about physics and science fiction and works on philosophy of science, especially cosmology. He is co-editor of "The Arrows of Time" (Springer, 2012) and editor of the upcoming book "Beyond the Big Bang", both with original contributions of many leading researchers in quantum cosmology.
Von Rauchhaupt, Ulf
Ulf von Rauchhaupt (born 1964) holds a B.A. in Philosophy and a Ph.D. in Physics. He did graduate work at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching and was a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and the Deutsches Museum in Munich. In 2001 he joined the editorial office of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. There he is a senior science editor for the Sunday edition. Apart from Physics and Astronomy he is interested in Mathematics, Geosciences as well as Paleontology und Archaeology.
Anil Ananthaswamy is a consultant for the London-based New Scientist magazine. He got his Bachelor's degree in electronics engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India and his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, and trained as a journalist at the University of California Santa Cruz.
Anil has worked at New Scientist in various capacities since 2000, including as staff writer, physics news editor and deputy news editor. He focuses on physics, neuroscience and climate change. Anil won the UK Institute of Physics' inaugural physics journalism award in February for his feature on the Square Kilometre Array. His writings have also appeared in National Geographic News, Discover magazine, The Independent (UK), The Times Online (UK). He is a columnist for PBS NOVA's The Nature of Reality blog.
In March 2010, Anil published 'The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe.' The book was long-listed for the UK's Dolman Travel Book of the Year award, and was voted the Book of the Year 2010 by UK's Physics World. 'The Edge of Physics' has been translated into six foreign languages.
Anil is a guest lecturer at the UC Santa Cruz science writing program, and also teaches an annual science journalism workshop at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, India.
Aparici, Alberto
I'm a theoretical particle physicist, currently preparing my PhD defense on the investigation of neutrino properties at the LHC and other high-energy experiments. I have a broad range of interests, from history of science to quantum field theory and systems biology, but I aim to direct my career to science communication. I think it's fundamental for a modern society that science gets a place on the media and people feel it as just another piece of public life, together with politics, economy or sports; for this purpose it's very important that scientists themselves get involved in science communication. I give talks at schools about modern topics in science and I run a small science section in La Brujula, a news program broadcasted on Spanish radio station Onda Cero. You can find me on Twitter (mostly in Spanish) as @cienciabrujula.
Barrow, John D.
John D. Barrow FRS is Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge University and Director of the Millennium Mathematics Project, a programme to improve the teaching, learning and appreciation of mathematics and it applications. He is has also been the Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London and is also a former Gresham Professor of Astronomy. His research interests are in cosmology, gravitation physics and the interface between particle physics and astronomy.
He received many awards, including the 2006 Templeton Prize, the Royal Society's 2008 Faraday Prize and the 2009 Kelvin Medal of the Institute of Physics. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the Academia Europaea. He has written more than 480 scientific papers, and 221 books, translated into 28 languages, together with many popular science articles. His recent books include Cosmic Imagery and 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know and his latest title, The Book of Universes appeared in February 2011. His play, Infinities, won the Italian Premi Ubu for best play in the Italian theatre in 2002, and the 2003 Italgas Prize.
Bojs, Karin
Karin Bojs is a science journalist and author. For many years she was Dagens Nyheter's science editor. Recently, she ended up as an employee in order to devote more time to writing books, but she still writes for Dagens Nyheter on a freelance basis. During her journalistic career, she got an honorary doctorate from Stockholm University and received several major awards, including Knowledge Award, awarded by the National Encyclopedia and Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences Media Award. In 1994, she founded the Swedish section of Reporters Without Borders, an international organization that promotes press freedom.
Brandenburg, Axel
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Davour, Anna My background is in experimental particle physics and the search for dark matter. I have worked with the AMANDA neutrino telescope, and the PICASSO experiment at SNOLab in Canada. Since then I have got a degree in journalism, and I have worked for the science department of the Swedish public service radio, Sveriges Radio. I also write for the astronomy magazine Populär Astronomi.
Di Giorgio, Claudia
I'm managing editor of Le Scienze, Italian edition of Scientific American, where I work since 2003 after many years as a freelance science journalist for paper newspapers and radio programs. As a space buff, I've been blogging on space & space policies in Italian since 2007 (Storie Spaziali) and I tweet, mostly on space, in Italian & English, as @Cla_dG
Fischer, Daniel
Daniel Fischer, born 1964 in Bonn, Germany, has been an astronomy writer and popularizer for the past 30+ years, initially writing for magazines and publishing his own printed newsletter as well as contributing to several books, and lately also getting increasingly active in electronic media where e.g. said newsletter has since migrated to skyweek.wordpress.com. Fischer was on the coordinating board of the International Year of Astronomy in Germany and loves to go on astronomical expeditions, for eclipses of all kinds, comets, meteor outbursts and the aurora. While his interests in astronomy and space science are 'universal' they somehow seem to be attracted by subjects beginning with 'Ko' in German or 'co' in English: comets, (the solar) corona and cosmology ...
Freistetter, Florian
Florian Freistetter studied astronomy at the University of Vienna and worked as astronomer at the Universities of Vienna, Jena and Heidelberg. Blogger since 2008; fulltime-writer since 2011. Author of the Blog "Astrodicticum Simplex" on astronomy and science. Author of three books on popular astronomy and of several articles in popular media and journals. Interested in new ways to communicate complicated science to the general public; especially young people and children.
Geens, Steffen
I have an MA in political science from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and an early career as a financial journalist in New York. After moving to Sweden in 2002, I worked on digital public diplomacy projects for the Swedish government, culminating in projects aimed at Arab and Chinese audiences, for which I worked and lived several years in Cairo and Shanghai.
For as long as I can remember, I have also been an avid amateur astronomer and a fan of astrophysics. For the past 7 years I've written OgleEarth.com, which chronicles the impact of networked digital maps and geospatial imagery on science and society. Some of the content there involves expository science writing, but it also occasionally veers into viral citizen-science -- most recently when I attempted a trajectory calculation of the Chelyabinsk meteor based on the shadows in YouTube videos. That method ended up being co-opted by professional astronomers and led to a co-authored paper on arXiv.
Green, Anne
Anne Green is an Associate Professor and Reader of physics at the University of Nottingham, UK. She has a BA in Physics from the University of Oxford and a DPhil in early Universe cosmology from the University of Sussex. She held postdoctoral positions in the Astronomy Unit at Queen Mary, University of London and the Field and Particle group at Stockholm University before returned to the UK with a 5 year Advanced Fellowship. Her research interests lie at the interface between astrophysics and particle physics. The main focus of her current research is the search for dark matter, in particular the signals expected in WIMP direct detection experiments and their dependence on the dark matter distribution. She is also interested in early Universe cosmology. She was a founding member of the UK Institute Of Physics Astroparticle Physics group and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. She regularly participates in, and organises, outreach activities including public lectures, schools talks and masterclasses. She lives in Chesterfield, UK with her partner (who is an astronomer) and their elderly, bad tempered pet rabbit. When not doing physics she likes to run very long distances, very slowly and travel to interesting/unusual places.
Hebden, Sophie
Sophie Hebden is a freelance science writer specialising in space and quantum physics. Her feature articles have been published by the Foundational Questions Institute and the New Scientist magazine, and she has recently done podcasting for fQXi. She worked previously for SciDev.Net, first as news desk assistant and then news editor, and also in the Nature press office. She has a PhD in space plasma physics from the University of Leicester and an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College. She lives in Mansfield, near Nottingham, UK, with her husband and two small daughters. sophiehebden.wordpress.com
Hofmann, Stefan
Stefan is a Cosmologist working at the Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany. He is also a member of the Cluster of Excellence for Fundamental Physics funded by the German Research Council, as well as a principal investigator of the transregional collaborative research centre Tr33 "The Dark Universe".
Stefan has broad scientific interests in all of modern theoretical physics, in particular at the interface of the quantum theory of fields and general relativity, effective field theory and physics beyond the standard models of particle physics and relativity.
Hossenfelder, Sabine
Sabine is an assistant professor at Nordita in Stockholm. She works mainly on the phenomenology of quantum gravity, and occasionally on modifications of General Relativity or the foundations of quantum mechanics. Sabine writes a blog called "Backreaction" and thinks that scientists don't take public outreach seriously enough.
Jayawardhana, Ray
Ray Jayawardhana is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Observational Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, where he also serves as the Senior Advisor to the President on Science Engagement. A graduate of Yale and Harvard, he uses many of the world's largest telescopes to explore planetary origins and diversity. He is the coauthor of nearly 100 papers in scientific journals. His discoveries have made headlines worldwide, including in The Economist, Washington Post, New York Times, Globe and Mail, Sydney Morning Herald, BBC, NPR and CBC, and have led to numerous accolades such as the Steacie Prize, the McLean Award, and the Radcliffe Fellowship. He is an award-winning writer whose articles have appeared in The Economist, New York Times, Globe and Mail, Scientific American, Astronomy, Muse, and more. His last book, Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life Beyond Our Solar System (2011), was a finalist for the Lane Anderson Award and the basis of "The Planet Hunters" television documentary on the CBC. His next book, Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe, is expected to be released later this year. An avid traveler, he has visited over 50 countries and all seven continents.
Koponen, Laura
I work for the Finnish magazine Tähdet ja avaruus (Stars and Space), which is a popular science magazine focused on astronomy and related sciences. With about 70 000 readers it is one of the largest popular science magazines in Finland. My work includes a lot of editing but also writing my own articles. My special interest areas are cosmology and physics. I also have an academic background in computational and theoretical physics.
Leino, Raili
I found my dream job and dream team early. I really cannot think about anything more interesting than to write about science and technology, and Technology&Business is the best place to do it.
Born 1954. Studied in Helsinki university 1973-1980: Physics, mathematics, geophysics and basics of computer science, astronomy and theoretical physics. Started working as a journalist in 1979 at the Finnish National Radio company. Worked as freelancer for different media. Started as a staff member in Technology and Business Magazine in 1984 (at that time it was called Engineering News), which is the sister magazine of the Swedish Ny Teknik. Been there since, except for shorter periods in other media of the same company Talentum Media Oy. Presstek, The Technology Journalists of Finland, member since 1994, member of the board since 2000 Fasej, Finnish Association of Science Editors and Journalists, member since 2002, member of the board since 2004, president 2009-2011, vice president 2012- Finnish Business Journalists, member since 2004 Finnish Environmental Journalists, member since 2010.
Losada, Illa Rivero
I am a PhD student at Nordita, under the supervision of Axel Brandenburg. I am working now within the VR-supported project on the "Formation of active regions in the Sun". The goal of this project is to develop the foundations of a radically new suggestion for the formation of active regions in the Sun. I did my Master and my degree studies at the Canary Islands (Spain), where I was involved in a cosmology project regarding the inhomogeneities in the University and how can affect the distances measurement. I also worked as a telescope operator in El Teide Observatory (Canary Islands, Spain) for two years.
Lozano, Ernesto
I got my PhD in theoretical physics from Autonoma University of Madrid in 2003. Then I held a three year-postdoctoral position at the department of particle physics of the Weizmann Institute of Science, in Israel. I quit academia in 2006. Since 2010 I am the physics and math editor of Investigacion y Ciencia, the Spanish edition of Scientific American.
Musser, George George Musser is a contributing editor for Scientific American magazine in New York. Like many science writers, he stumbled into profession almost by accident, having previously thought of science and writing as two distinct sides of his life. While a student studying engineering and mathematics, and then planetary geophysics, he moonlighted as a newspaper reporter and columnist, covering topics ranging from architecture to crack cocaine. In 1994 he applied for -- and, to his amazement, got -- a job as editor of Mercury magazine, published by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, a science and science-education nonprofit based in San Francisco. He worked there until 1998, when he became a senior editor at Scientific American. He left the full-time magazine staff in 2012 to focus on a book about the nature of space and time. Musser received the 2011 Science Writing Award from the American Institute of Physics and 2010 Jonathan Eberhart Planetary Sciences Journalism Award from the American Astronomical Society. He was the originator and one of the lead editors for the single-topic issue "A Matter of Time" (September 2002), which won a National Magazine Award for editorial excellence. His first book, The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory, was published by Alpha in 2008.
Nemiroff, Robert J.
Nemiroff obtained a Ph D. in astronomy and astrophysics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1987. He worked as a postdoc at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, USA before becoming a Professor of Physics at Michigan Technological University, USA. He is perhaps best known scientifically for papers predicting, usually among others, several recovered microlensing phenomena, and papers showing, usually among others, that gamma-ray bursts were consistent with occurring at cosmological distances. He led a group that developed and deployed the first online fisheye night sky monitor, deploying later models to most major astronomical observatories. He co-created the Astrophysics Source Code Library (ascl.net) open repository. In terms of science writing, he is perhaps best known as a co-creator and editor of the Astronomy Picture of the Day (apod.nasa.gov) website. His current research interests include trying to limit attributes of our universe with distant gamma-ray bursts, and trying to develop a sky monitoring smartphone application.
Reed, Christina
Christina Reed is the Earth producer for Discovery News and the author of the books Earth Science: Decade by Decade and Marine Science: Decade by Decade, published as part of Facts on File's 20th-century science history series. She has worked as a freelance science journalist writing for Scientific American, New Scientist, Science, and Nature.
In the summer of 2003, Reed worked as the science coordinator for Aliens of the Deep. As part of her job, she ventured 1,000 meters underwater to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean with Director James Cameron using the Russian Mir 1 submersible. For the movie, she helped document extreme life at hydrothermal vents.
Reed's other at-sea expeditions include working as the daily science reporter for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's month-long Dive and Discover Cruise around the Galapagos Islands on the Scripps R/V Roger Revelle. Her graduate work at Columbia University also took her out to sea for a month in the North Atlantic on the WHOI R/V Knorr. She was also a contestant in The Learning Channel's 'Escape from Experiment Island' reality television show, which filmed on the island of Rum in Scotland. She is currently living in Paris, France, where she spent two years working as a communications consultant for the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission at the United Nations Education Science and Cultural Organization.
Rose, Joanna
Joanna Rose is a science journalist and editor at the Forskning och Framsteg magazine. Her main fields of interest are astronomy, physics and philosophy. She has been working in the field since 1987, sharing her time between print press and the Swedish Radio, where she for five years was a producer and host for Filosofiska Rummet, a weekly program on philosophy.
Sahlen, Martin
Dr. Martin Sahlen is a post-doctoral fellow at the Beecroft Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, University of Oxford, working at the intersection of theoretical and observational cosmology. Current research interests include tests of fundamental assumptions, non-standard gravitational theories, and dark energy, based on observations of the large-scale structure and cosmic microwave background in the Universe. Among other outreach activities, he collaborates with artists on the communication of scientific understanding.
Schirber, Michael
I am an American freelance science writer and editor, who's been working in Lyon, France, for the past six years. I have written for Science, Physics World and Space.com. I currently do a lot of work for the American Physical Society. I love physics, but I have an ongoing fascination with astrobiology.
Schliephake, Michael
I am a systems expert at PDC, the High Performance Computing Center of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. The work in a group that operates some of Sweden's largest computers, to carry out computer science research with advanced simulation codes, and some teaching is at the heart of the activities there.
Beside it, I am very interested in modern astrophysics, science history, and how to communicate everything should it be about computing or astronomy to students and other curious people.
Sollerman, Jesper
Jesper Sollerman is professor in astronomy at Stockholm University. His research focus on supernovae, gamma-ray bursts and cosmology. He is chair of the Swedish Astronomical Society that conduct a lot of outreach activites and issues the swedish astronomy-magazine Populär Astronomi. Sollerman occasionally also act as a science writer.
Spataro, Giovanni
Giovanni Spataro, editor for Le Scienze, the Italian edition of Scientific American. My blog spataro-lescienze.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it about science in developing countries and global issues.
Sutton, Patrick
I've been a committed nerd since childhood. I've always been fascinated by the "big questions" of science, such as the big bang, black holes, and theories of everything, and I decided on a career in physics while still a teenager. I did my PhD studies on the frozen prairies of western Canada, at the University of Alberta, where I studied the behaviour of quantum field theories in curved spacetimes. (It seemed interesting at the time.) After graduating in 2000 I moved into gravitational-wave research with postdoctoral stints at the Pennsylvania State University and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). I joined the faculty of Cardiff University in 2007.
My research focuses on the detection and study of gravitational waves from colliding black holes, exploding stars, and other violent phenomena in the universe. I carry out my research as a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, a team of more than 800 researchers worldwide, and I'm proud to serve as co-chair of one of the largest LIGO working groups for gravitational-wave detection. I've found the jump from small science to big science to be remarkably rewarding, and it's exciting to be a part of such a vibrant and growing field.
Tjärnlund, Nils Johan
Nils Johan Tjärnlund is a Science Writer working regularly for radio and press since 2001, although he wrote his first article in the daily Sundsvalls Tidning already in 1993. He was educated at Uppsala University (studies in history, classical history and latin) and Mid Sweden University (studies in journalism).
Tjärnlund is a Science Contributor for The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. It is one of the largest financiers of research in Sweden with annual grants of around 700 million SEK. Among other clients are The Royal Court with The Royal Foundations, Centrum för Näringslivshistoria (The Center for Business History in Stockholm), Spraktidningen and Populär historia. Tjärnlund is a Science Contributor for the news magazine Fokus regularly since its launch in December 2005. Tjärnlund is also project leader for the Stenstaden Visitor Center in Sundsvall.
He has been affiliated with the Science Department of Swedish Radio since 2001, five years as a member of the editorial staff and from 2006 as free contributor. During that time he has produced more than 300 broadcasts. That includes working as editor and host of the popular midday programme 'Vetandets värld', covering science-in-general, and as editor and host of 'Vetandets världs gränstrakter', dealing with issues in the burning point between science and humanities.
He has also covered the annual Nobel prizes in science. In 2006 he was producer and host of 'Vetenskapsradion Forum', covering arts and humanities and social sciences. He also produced 'Under stjärnorna', an astronomy show discussing new fields in space research and historical perspectives on famous astronomer Tycho Brahe.
In 2009 Tjärnlund published a book describing the architecture of the beautiful Stenstaden, the astonishingly well-preserved town centre of Sundsvall created in the 1890s after a devastating fire. Since then he has published two additional books on Sundsvall. He has received several scholarships, among those grants from Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse, Författarförbundet, Journalistfonden, Polska institutet (The Polish Institute in Stockholm), Vetenskapsradet (The Swedish Research Council) and Byggnadsföreningen i Stockholm. In 2005 he was a co-recipient of Kunskapspriset from Nationalencyklopedin (250.000 SEK) "for submitting Swedish listeners with exciting and in-depth reports from the scientific field".
Nils Johan Tjärnlund was born in Sundsvall in 1978 and shares his time between an apartment in the beautiful Stenstaden and an apartment in the historical surroundings of the famous Linnaeus Garden in central Uppsala.
Vaas, Rüdiger
Rudy Vaas is astronomy and physics editor of the monthly popular science magazine Bild der Wissenschaft in Germany. Additionally, he is the author of many books about cosmology and quantum gravity. He also wrote about physics and science fiction and works on philosophy of science, especially cosmology. He is co-editor of "The Arrows of Time" (Springer, 2012) and editor of the upcoming book "Beyond the Big Bang", both with original contributions of many leading researchers in quantum cosmology.
Von Rauchhaupt, Ulf
Ulf von Rauchhaupt (born 1964) holds a B.A. in Philosophy and a Ph.D. in Physics. He did graduate work at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching and was a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and the Deutsches Museum in Munich. In 2001 he joined the editorial office of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. There he is a senior science editor for the Sunday edition. Apart from Physics and Astronomy he is interested in Mathematics, Geosciences as well as Paleontology und Archaeology.