Past: History of Science

Prof. Lorraine Daston is an American historian of science, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), in Berlin, Germany.

Future: Personalized Medicine

Mary-Claire King, PhD, is American Cancer Society Professor in the Department of Medicine (Division of Medical Genetics) and the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Past: History of Science

Simon J. Schaffer is a Professor of the History of Science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at University of Cambridge.

Present: Literature

A.B. Yehoshua is one of Israel’s leading fiction writers since his debut in the late 1950s

Future: Astronomy

Prof. Andrzej Udalski is the former Director of the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw and the head of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment.

Past: Archaeology and Natural Sciences

Prof. David Reich, from the Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, USA, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is the world’s leading pioneer in analyzing ancient human DNA.

Present: Literature

Jamaica Kincaid is celebrated worldwide as one of the most important and influential writers today.

Future: Astronomy

Prof. Neil Gehrels was the Director of the NASA Astroparticle Physics Laboratory and a leading figure for several decades in the field of gamma ray astronomy.

Future: Astronomy

Shrinivas Kulkarni is the Director of Caltech Optical Observatories and the Director of the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute.

Past: Archaeology and Natural Sciences

Prof. Svante Pääbo is the Director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany.

Present: Combating Poverty

Prof. Sir Anthony B. Atkinson, Centennial Professor, London School of Economics and Honorary Fellow Nuffield College, Oxford.

Past: Social History - New Directions

Prof. Arlette Farge is a Professor at the Center for historical research, Paris.