Associate Professor Jen Martin spent many years working as a field ecologist until she decided the most useful thing she could contribute as a scientist was to teach other scientists how to be effective and engaging communicators. Jen founded and leads the University of Melbourne's Science Communication Teaching Program. She is deeply committed to helping scientists develop the skills they need to be visible, make connections and have impact.
 
Jen also practices what she preaches: for nearly 20 years she’s been talking about science each week on 3RRR, Australia’s largest community radio station. She writes for a variety of publications, co-hosts the Let’s Talk SciComm podcast, was named the 2019 Unsung Hero of Australian Science Communication and received the 2020 University of Melbourne David White Award for Teaching Excellence. Jen’s book, ‘Why am I like this? The science behind your weirdest thoughts and habits’ was published by Hardie Grant in January 2024. 

Dr. Durant's research focuses on disputes between experts and publics, and he has published widely on controversies involving nuclear waste management, nuclear power, public policy about energy options, and more recently is investigating climate change policy-making and the impacts on democracy of disinformation and misinformation. In general terms, Dr Durant theorizes the relations between experts and democratic discussion and decision-making.

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Dr. Nelson's research focuses on complexity and uncertainty in biomedicine, with a particular focus on preclinical research with animal models. Dr Nelson's book, Model Behavior, is an ethnography of a mouse behavior genetics laboratory where scientists were struggling with how to study complex psychiatric disorders in the controlled setting of the laboratory. Her current project examines the “reproducibility crisis” in biomedicine, a recent phenomenon where scientists have found many supposedly stable findings to be difficult to replicate on subsequent investigation.

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Holden Thorp became Editor-in-Chief of the Science family of journals in October 2019. He came to Science from Washington University, where he was provost from 2013 to 2019 and professor from 2013 to 2023.  He is currently a professor at George Washington University. Thorp earned a bachelor of science degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a doctorate in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology, and completed postdoctoral work at Yale University. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Inventors, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  

Thorp is co-author with Buck Goldstein of two books on higher education: Engines of Innovation: The Entrepreneurial University in the Twenty-First Century and Our Higher Calling: Rebuilding the Partnership Between America and its Colleges and Universities, both from UNC Press.

Edouard Machery is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, the Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, and a member of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (University of Pittsburgh-Carnegie Mellon University).

Edouard's research focuses on the philosophical issues raised by psychology and cognitive neuroscience with a special interest in concepts, moral psychology, the relevance of evolutionary biology for understanding cognition, modularity, the nature, origins, and ethical significance of prejudiced cognition, the foundation of statistics, and the methods of psychology and cognitive neuroscience. He is also involved in the development of experimental philosophy, having published several noted articles in this field. 

Naomi Oreskes is Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. A world-renowned earth scientist, historian and public speaker, she is the author of the best-selling book, Merchants of Doubt (2010) and a leading voice on the role of science in society, the reality of anthropogenic climate change, and the role of disinformation in blocking climate action. Her new book, with Erik Conway, is The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market,  published by Bloomsbury Press.

Her numerous awards and prizes include the 2016 Stephen Schneider Award for outstanding Climate Science Communication and the 2015 Herbert Feis Prize of the American Historical Association for her contributions to public history. In 2018, she was named a Guggenheim Fellow, and in 2019 she was awarded the British Academy Medal. 

Simon J. Schaffer is a professor at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and gained a DPhil in 1980. Schaffer went on to Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar. He has also taught at Imperial College London and the University of California, Los Angeles. Schaffer has been a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge since 1985.

Schaffer has authored or co-authored numerous books, including 'Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life' with Steven Shapin. In addition to his work at Cambridge, he has been a presenter on the BBC, in particular the series Light Fantastic broadcast on BBC Four in 2004. Until recently, he was the editor of The British Journal for the History of Science.