People

Administration and Staff

Lawrence M. Krauss
Director
Foundation Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration

Manfred Laubichler
Associate Director
President's Professor, School of Life Sciences

Cynthia Schulze
Administrative Associate

Michelle Iwen
Program Manager

External Advisory Board

Sidney Altman
  
Nobel Laureate

Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; 
Professor of Chemistry, Yale University

Origins Project Distinguished Visiting Professor

Eben Bayer
CEO, Co-founder, Ecovative Design, LLC

Baruch Blumberg*

Nobel Laureate

Distinguished Scientist, Fox Chase Cancer Center
* We honor the memory of Dr. Blumberg, who passed away April 5, 2011. Our condolences go out to his family and friends.

Richard Dawkins

Former Charles Simonyi Professor for the Understanding of Science, Oxford University

Founder, Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science

Mariette DiChristina

Editor-in-chief, Scientific American

Douglas Erwin

Curator of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

Ira Flatow
Host of Science Friday, NPR Radio
 

Wendy Freedman

Director, Carnegie Observatory

David Gross

Nobel Laureate

Director, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

Stephen Hawking

Director of Research, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics;
 Lucasian Professor (Emeritus) of Mathematics, University of Cambridge

John Mather

Nobel Laureate

Senior Astrophysicist, Goddard Space Center

Elon Musk

Chairperson and CEO, Tesla Motors

CEO, SpaceX

Jahm Najafi
CEO, Najafi Companies

Steven Pinker

Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University

Lord Martin Rees

Past President, Royal Society

Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics

Master of Trinity College, University of Cambridge

Jonathan Rothberg
Founder, CEO, Chairman, Ion Torrent Systems, Inc.

Neil Shubin

Robert R. Bensley Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago

Provost, Field Museum

Mary Smart

Smart Family Foundation

J. Craig Venter
Founder and President, J. Craig Venter Institute

Frank Wilczek

Nobel Laureate

Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Origins Project Distinguished Research Professor

Visiting Professors

Frank Wilczek
Origins Project Distinguished Research Professor, January 2011
Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sidney Altman
Origins Project Distinguished Visiting Professor, February 2011
Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University