Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Guest: Rowan McLaughlin - Researcher in the Hamilton Institute at Maynooth University @MU_Hamilton @MaynoothUni

Guest: Aidan Cowley - Science Officer at European Space Agency @esa @esaspaceflight

Guest: Dr. Christoph Hennersperger, Co-Founder and CTO, Luma Vision.

Guest: Dr William Pao, former Chief Development Officer at Pfizer and Head of Research at Roche and author of 'Breakthrough: The Quest for Life-Changing Medicines'.

Simon Conway Morris - Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Paleobiology at Cambridge University and Author of From Extraterrestrials to Animal Minds: Six Myths of Evolution @EarthSciCam @Cambridge_Uni

Logan Nickels - Chief Research Officer with the Male Contraceptive Initiative @MaleBCNow

Guest: Colm Collins, Assistant Professor at the School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Sciences in UCD, and Conway Investigator.

Guest: Greg Eghigian, Professor of History and Bioethics at Pennsylvania State University, Visiting Research Fellow at the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University, and author of ‘After the Flying Saucers Came’.

Emma Peters, a PhD student in the Lucid Lab at the University of Bern in Switzerland.

Patrick Dixon, Futurist Keynote Speaker and author of ‘How AI Will Change Your Life: A Futurist's Guide to a Super-Smart World’.

Seren Kell - Head of science and technology at the Good Food Institute Europe @SerenLaurelKell @GoodFoodEurope

Carl Öhman - Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Uppsala University and author of The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care @CJ_Ohman @UU_PoliSci 

Joshua Siegel - Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

Sam Parnia - Director of Critical Care & Resuscitation Research at the New York University School of Medicine and author of Lucid Dying: The New Science Revolutionizing How We Understand Life and Death.

Guest: Professor Lewis Dartnell, Astrobiology Research Scientist at the University of Westminster and Author of 'Being Human: How Our Biology Shaped World History' @lewis_dartnell

Guest: Neurosurgeon Ted Schwartz @TedSchwartz13

Guest: Colm Collins, Assistant Professor at the School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Sciences in UCD, and Conway Investigator.

Guest: John Trowsdale, Emeritus Professor of Immunology at the University of Cambridge.

Guest: Ziv Williams, Associate Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School.

Guest: Dr. Brian D. Appelbe - Research Fellow in the Physics Department at Imperial College London.

Guest: David Henshall - Professor of Physiology and Medical Physics at RCSI and author of Fine-Tuning Life: A Guide to MicroRNAs, Your Genome's Master Regulators.

Dirk Leder - Research associate in the office for Cultural Heritage in Lower Saxony.

Lorina Naci - Associate Professor, leader of the 'Consciousness and Cognition' group at TCD.

Dr. Gregory Moore - Senior Research Associate, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences at The University of Melbourne joined Jonathan on the show.

Robin Tanamachi - Associate Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University, joined Jonathan on the show

This week, Jonathan was joined by Oliver Morton, Senior Editor at The Economist and author of The Moon: A History For The Future and by Sarah T. Stewart, Planetary Scientist and Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the UC Davis.

Sadie Dingfelder - Author of Do I Know You?: A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination

Nora Newcombe - Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Temple University @NoraNewcombe

Ivan Marusic is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Melbourne School of Engineering @engunimelb @unimelb

Stephen J. Trumble - Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Baylor University & Affiliate Professor in the Institute of Marine Science at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks @stephenjtrumbleMichael Brecht - Professor for 'Systems Neurobiology and Neural Computation' at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience at Humboldt-University, Berlin @bccn_berlin @HumboldtUni @NNCN_Germany 

Dr Seshadri Nadathur, a co-author of the work and senior research fellow at the University of Portsmouth’s Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation @SeshNadathur @UoPCosmology

Lev Parikian - Conducter & Author of Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing @LevParikian&Professor Ines Thiele - Principal Investigator of the Molecular Systems Physiology group at University of Galway and Principal Investigator with APC Microbiome Ireland @ines_thiele @uniofgalway

Rob Drummond - Professor of Sociolinguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University and author of You’re All Talk: why we are what we speak

Olive Heffernan - Science Journalist and Author of The High Seas: Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean @O_Heffernan

Eleanor Dunn - PhD Researcher at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @DIAS_Dublin

Guest: Christi Gendron - Research Assistant Professor in Molecular & Integrative Physiology at The University of Michigan.

Eugene Morin - Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Trent University @TrentUResearch @TrentUniversity

Les Johnson - Author & Space Technologist

In this special episode of Futureproof we look at Face Blindness and super recognition with Professor Fiona Newell - Professor of Experimental Psychology at the Trinity Institiute of Neurosciences and Meike Ramon - Cognitive neuroscientist and Assistant Professor at the University of Fribourg

Dr John Breen - Chief Technology Officer of NEG8 Carbon @NEG8Carbon

Guests this week:Dr Aidan Boran - Founder/CEO at Digital Gait Labs @aidan_boran & Professor Seán Kennelly - Consultant Geriatrician and Director of the Institute of Memory & Cognition at Tallaght University Hospital (TUH) @SPKennelly @TUH_Tallaght

George Musser - Contributing editor for Scientific American magazine and author of Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation: Why Physicists Are Studying Human Consciousness and AI to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe

Professor Johanna Vos - Assistant Professor in the School of Physics at Trinity College

Dr. Siobhan Power - Geologist with the Geological Survey Ireland

John Krakauer - Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, and Director of the Center for the Study of Motor Learning and Brain Repair at Johns Hopkins

Fabian Klenner is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Washington

Jules Howard - Zoological Correspondent and Author of Infinite Life: A Revolutionary Story of Eggs, Evolution and Life on Earth

John Whitfield is a Science journalist and Author

Professor Arun Misra is a Thomas Workman Emeritus Professor in Mechanical Engineering at McGill University.

Sam Van Wessenbergh is a Research Professor in the Laboratory for Functional Morphology of the Department of Biology at the University of Antwerp