ASTRONOMY AND HISTORY

Dr Simon Mitton is a Fellow of 3 Royal Societies, a Life Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge University, and an incredible astronomer whose career has spanned one of the greatest eras of astrophysics. He is the biographer and former student of the legendary Sir Fred Hoyle and now is set to release the most comprehensive biography of Georges Lemaitre on the centenary of his most famous paper on the Big Bang. Simon had a front row seat whilst working alongside Hoyle, Stephen Hawking, Lord Martin Rees and many others and it was such a pleasure to recount them with him.

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GEOPHYSICS

Professor Bob White is a Fellow of the Royal Society and Emeritus Professor of Geophysics at Cambridge University. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1994, and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2016. In 2018 he was awarded a Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, which is their highest award, in recognition of a lifetime’s achievement in research. He is also a Fellow of the Geological Society, an elected Member of the International Society for Science and Religion and several other professional bodies; he serves on many of their committees. Since 1988 he has been a Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, prior to which he was a student and Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He led a research group investigating the Earth’s dynamic crust: in particular the way in which enormous volumes of volcanic rock are produced when continents and oceans rift apart, and the movement of molten rock under active volcanoes. He has organised many overseas fieldwork projects and supervised over 55 PhD students at Cambridge, many of whom are now prominent in academia, industry, government and education. His work at sea has taken him to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans and his research group is currently investigating the internal structure of volcanoes in Iceland. His scientific work is published in over 350 papers and articles. He is emeritus director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion in Cambridge.

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SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY

How can we live on Mars?

Dr Tiffany Vora is a synthetic biologist from Silicon Valley and a leading space scientist. A graduate in biology from New York University before doing her PhD at Princeton, she was present in the explosive booms of genomics, systems biology, computational biology and genetic engineering - and we will talk about all of them! She became Visiting Assistant Professor at the American University in Cairo then Instructor for the Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University. Her research draws on all fields of biology and chemistry to push the frontiers of humans living off-world and using these breakthroughs to improve life on earth. A true futurist, Dr Vora lives innovation in not only research but as a founder and co-founder of multiple startups. She is the Singularity Fellow in Biotechnology at Singularity University https://www.su.org/ and an advocate for women in STEM.

• See her TED talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nqEDo5ER94
• See her presentation at the Mars Society Conference here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY9tKgMJ-MY
• Join Dr Vora's blog and see her website here: https://www.tiffanyvora.com/

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