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

Harry Lonsdale
Co-Founder, Bend Research; Founder, Origin of Life Challenge

John Mather
Nobel Laureate
Senior Astrophysicist, Goddard Space Center

Jahm Najafi
CEO, Najafi Companies

Gerry Ohrstrom
Former chairperson, Ohrstrom Foundation

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