Dr. Alex Filippenko is one of the world’s most highly cited astronomers and is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has appeared in more than 100 TV documentaries and is the author of The Cosmos: Astronomy in the New Millennium. Alex Filippenko has been actively…

Dr. Mario Livio is an internationally known astrophysicist, a best-selling author, and a popular speaker. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Livio has published more than 400 scientific papers on topics ranging from Dark Energy and cosmology to black holes and extrasolar planets. He is also the…

Dr. Max Tegmark is a Swedish-American cosmologist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as well as the scientific director of the Foundational Questions Institute and the co-founder of the Future of Life Institute. The author of more than 200 technical papers on topics from cosmology to artificial intelligence, he has earned the…

Historian and author Brandy Schillace, PhD, writes at the intersections of medical science, history and literature. Her work for the Dittrick Museum of Medical History brings her in contact with rare artifacts of history, as well as with other museum institutions worldwide. As a writer/research and Editor-in-Chief of the BMJ’s Medical Humanities, Brandy travels extensively…