Where I Work

Cave ecologist Fernando Calderón Gutiérrez is studying the resilience of cave-adapted species in the face of climate change and other stressors.

Anthropologist Nosipho Mngomezulu finds podcasting an authentic, immediate way to reach an audience.

Jes Lefcourt aims to guard African wildlife by creating a real-time tracking software.

Through better sensing, Yuhan Hu hopes to bring robots and humans closer together.

Jean-Luc Kanapé combines the ancestral knowledge of his Indigenous Canadian community, the Innu, with technology to protect the region’s caribou from predators and environmental damage.

Lucas van der Zee hopes to restore current farmland to its natural state by eliminating the vegetation stage of crop-growing.

Cultural and heritage researcher Arianna Traviglia uses robotic technology to painstakingly reconstruct 2,000-year-old mural paintings in Pompeii.

Libin Zhang aims to restore sea-cucumber populations to rebalance ocean ecosystems and so that people can use their beneficial compounds.

Conservationist Loyiso Dunga aims to guard kelp, a crucial resource in South African waters that is home to invertebrates, fish and mammals.

Yichen Cai creates thin, flexible devices that could have myriad uses, from wearable blood-pressure monitors to touch sensors for robots.

Miin Wu, whose company, Macronix International, has played a seminal part in Taiwan’s semiconductor industry, explains why dust and vibration pose enormous challenges for running his factory.

Zoleka Filander leads research in South African waters to shield vulnerable marine life and honour her Indigenous community.

Scent sculptor Michael Moisseeff simulates all manner of aromas from the everyday and historical to the extraterrestrial.

Microbiologist Gaël Erauso studies microorganisms from the deep ocean to learn how they evolved from prebiotic organic molecules billions of years ago.

Agriculturist Rohan McDonald is rebuilding a medical-cannabis laboratory after an eruption destroyed his team’s work.

Conservation biologist Andrea Terán-Valdez aims to protect endangered frogs in Ecuador by breeding populations, cataloguing new species and fighting industrial development.

Luis Fonseca leads research into micro-, nano- and photonic chip technologies that could kill cancer cells, protect the environment and facilitate space research.

Zoologist Zuofu Xiang’s research in Asia helps governments to protect the populations and teaches him the value of cooperation.

Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti sloshed fluids around in the International Space Station to gather information for designing fuel tanks.

Julie Robinson, a marine biologist-turned-policymaker in Belize, is helping to save her country through seaweed farming.