Board of Advisers

Leslie C. Aiello
President, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
Roger Bingham
Professor, Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego
G. Steven Burrill
CEO, Burrill & Company
Arthur Caplan
Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics,
University of Pennsylvania
Sean Carroll
Senior Research Associate,
Department of Physics, Caltech
George M. Church
Director, Center for Computational Genetics,
Harvard Medical School
Rita Colwell
Distinguished Professor, University of Maryland
College Park and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Drew Endy
Professor of Bioengineering,
Stanford University
Ed Felten
Director, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University
Kaigham J. Gabriel
Deputy Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Michael S. Gazzaniga
Director, Sage Center for the Study of Mind, University of California, Santa Barbara
David Gross
Frederick W. Gluck Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
(Nobel Prize in Physics, 2004)
Lene Vestergaard Hau
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics, Harvard University
Danny Hillis
Co-chairman, Applied Minds
Daniel M. Kammen
Director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Vinod Khosla
Founder, Khosla Ventures
Christof Koch
Lois and Victor Troendle
Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Biology, Caltech
Lawrence M. Krauss
Director, Origins Initiative,
Arizona State University
Morten L. Kringelbach
Director, Hedonia: TrygFonden Research Group, University of Oxford and University of Aarhus
Steven Kyle
Professor of Applied
Economics and Management,
Cornell University
Robert S. Langer
David H. Koch Institute
Professor, M.I.T.
Lawrence Lessig
Professor, Harvard Law School
Ernest J. Moniz
Cecil and Ida Green
Distinguished Professor. M.I.T.
John P. Moore
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
M. Granger Morgan
Professor and Head of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Miguel Nicolelis
Co-director, Center for Neuroengineering,
Duke University
Martin Nowak
Director, Program for Evolutionary Dynamics,
Harvard University
Robert Palazzo
Provost and Professor of Biology, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute
Carolyn S. Porco
Leader, Cassini Imaging Science Team,
and Director, CICLOPS, Space Science Institute
Vilayanur S. Ramchandran
Director, Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego
Lisa Randall
Professor of Physics, Harvard University
Martin Rees
Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, University of Cambridge
John Reganold
Regents Professor of Soil Science, Washington State University
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University
Eugenie Scott
Executive Director, National Center for Science Education
Terry Sejnowski
Professor and Laboratory Head of Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Michael Snyder
Professor of Genetics,
Stanford University School of Medicine
Michael E. Webber
Associate Director, Center for International Energy & Environmental Policy, University of Texas at Austin
Steven Weinberg
Director, Theory Research Group, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin
(Nobel Prize in Physics, 1979)
George M. Whitesides
Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Harvard University
Nathan Wolfe
Director, Global Viral Forecasting Initiative
R. James Woolsey, Jr.
Venture Partner,
VantagePoint Venture Partners
Anton Zeilinger
Professor of Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics, Quantum Information, University of Vienna
Jonathan Zittrain
Professor, Harvard Law School