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Stephen Pearse has been a groundbreaking technology leader and entrepreneur for 45 years. He is currently a member of the Hertz Foundation board of directors. He is a managing director at Yucatan Rock investments, and served as Chairman for these boards: Foundation for Energy Security and Innovation (Appointed by DOE secretary, Vice Chair), Cyras (sold … Read more
Douglas Wickert is the Commander, 412th Test Wing, Edwards Air Force Base (AFB), California. He leads a wing of nearly 8,000 personnel in the developmental test and evaluation of the B-21, B-1, B-2, F-35, F-22, F-16, T-7, C-17, C-5, KC-46, KC-135, KC-10, and other emerging technologies. Additionally, Brig Gen Wickert is the Installation Commander responsible … Read more
Arnold J. Levine, Ph.D., is a Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, renowned for his groundbreaking discovery of the p53 tumor suppressor protein, a critical molecule in cancer prevention. Dr. Levine earned his Bachelor of Arts in biology from Harpur College, SUNY, and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He … Read more
Joseph Prescott, Ph.D., is the Deputy Director of the Biosafety Level-4 Laboratory (BSL-4) at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, Germany, where he leads the Comparative Immunology of Risk Group-4 Viruses Group. With over two decades of experience, Dr. Prescott is a leading expert in the study of the world’s most pathogenic viruses, including Ebola, … Read more
Michael Koeris is the Office Director, Biological Technologies Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Koeris joined DARPA as the director of the Biological Technologies Office in April 2024. His research and teaching focus on all aspects of chemistry, manufacturing, and control for microbiome medicines, as well as advanced cell and gene therapy approaches. Before … Read more
Gigi Kwik Gronvall is a Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and a Professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is an immunologist by training. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she led the Center’s ongoing efforts to track the development … Read more
Erica Goldman is the Director of Day One and Policy Entrepreneurship at the Federation of American Scientists. Erica has served in various roles spanning the boundaries between science and policy throughout her career. She has a diverse background that includes science writing, science policy, and academic research and her passions lie in making connections between … Read more
David VadeLinde was an American electrical engineer who was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick from 2001 to 2006. After growing up in St. Albans, West Virginia, where he played football, David attended Carnegie Mellon University on a Hertz Fellowship. This school, “Carnegie Tech” at the time, would not have been within reach for him without the scholarship, … Read more
Guy Weyl was born in Strasbourg, France. He came to America with his family at the beginning of World War II and they became American citizens. Homesick for France, Guy returned to attend the prestigious Physics and Chemistry School of Paris in 1960. After his graduation, he returned to the U.S. to begin his career … Read more
Krishna V. Shenoy, PhD, was the Hong Seh and Vivian W. M. Lim Professor of Engineering. He was with the Departments of Electrical Engineering (EE) and, by courtesy, of Bioengineering (BioE), Neurobiology and Neurosurgery in the Schools of Engineering (SOE) and Medicine (SOM) at Stanford University. He was also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) … Read more
Tom Sathre worked as a Senior Scientific Programmer at Lockheed Martin. Tom graduated with two Master’s Degrees in computer science and mathematics from Texas A&M University and a Master’s Degree in physics from UC Davis, California. His first employment was with Lockheed Aerospace in California and England for ten years. He was hired by Martin … Read more
Craig L. SanPietro was the founder of Craden Peripherals which manufactured specialized computer equipment ranging from automated parking systems to dedicated printers for banking applications, where Craden printers became the national standard. On his journey to becoming a founder and CEO, Craig also designed a replacement disk drive controller for IBM, returned to his alma … Read more
Paul Rubbert was a leader in the development of the field of computational fluid dynamics. Paul grew up and attended university in Minnesota, obtaining bachelor’s and master’s degrees in aeronautical engineering. He worked at the Boeing Airplane Company in Seattle before attending MIT for his PhD in aerodynamics engineering, received in 1965. He then worked … Read more
Joseph (Joe) Polchinski, PhD, is a permanent member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, and a professor of physics at University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1975, he received his BS in physics from the California Institute of Technology, and in 1980 as a Hertz Fellow, his PhD in physics from University of California, … Read more
Oberdan William Otto was a physicist and a stalwart of the Scottish Country Dancing and Round Dancing communities. Oberdan grew up in Palo Alto, California and graduated from California Institute of Technology in 1969 and from Stanford University in 1973, where he earned a PhD in Applied Physics. For most of his career he developed … Read more
Marshall Onellion was an experimental condensed matter physics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After completing his BS in mathematics and physics at West Virginia University in 1972, Onellion served in the U.S. Air Force until he was honorably discharged with the rank of Captain in 1979. He then began graduate studies in physics at … Read more
Steven Moosman was the Deputy Director at United States Air Force.
Alan K. Miller is the founder of Cool it! Earth, where he is developing new methods to mitigate global warming. He has been a research professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford; and a senior staff engineer at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company where he was the VARTM subject matter expert and served as … Read more
Francis Lee was an inventor, entrepreneur, and professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and was responsible for several notable achievements that have contributed to the United States’ technological prowess. He was among the second group of scientists awarded the Hertz Fellowship in 1964. Francis was the … Read more
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