20 | Peer Bork and the scientific candy shop
Peer Bork is a legendary scientist, and these days he’s also the Director of Scientific Activities at the European Molecular Biology Lab (EMBL) in Heidelberg. Among his many accolades, Peer was recent...
2 Sep 202228min
19 | Edward Tufte and the Thinking Eye
Edward Tufte (ET) is widely-considered as the guru of data visualisation. He has taught the world about how data is to be communicated. He is best known for his 5 books on data visualisation, which ha...
23 Aug 202239min
18 | Shafi Goldwasser and the good joke
Shafi Goldwasser received the Turing Award – the “Nobel Prize of Computing” – in 2012. She needs no introduction to anyone working in computer science or cryptology, a field she essentially founded as...
18 Jul 202224min
17 | Uri Alon and our internal tuning fork
Uri Alon, a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, is best known for his contributions to systems biology. But Uri is also famous for his very joyful and playful attitude to science...
31 Mai 202239min
16 | Agnel Sfeir on science as an obsession
Agnel Sfeir is a leading scientist in the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, who studies fundamental aspects of the biology of the cell. Agnel revels in asking seemingly simple questi...
16 Mai 202242min
15 | Nikolaus Rajewsky on how to think like a bacterium
Nikolaus Rajewsky is the founding director of the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology. After studying Physics, he moved into systems biology, studying the role of RNA in gene regulation. In t...
21 Mar 202226min
14 | Bill Martin on paying attention
Professor Bill Martin from Düsseldorf University is a leading evolutionary biologist, who has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of the origins of eukaryotes, the cell nucleus, and li...
24 Feb 202239min
13 | Steven Strogatz on ruthless simplification
Steven Strogatz, one of the world’s foremost applied mathematicians, is a Professor at Cornell University. While biologists have evolution as a guiding principle, mathematicians have beauty, economy,...
7 Feb 202247min
