Distinctions

Emmanuelle Charpentier studies the molecular mechanisms that govern the regulation of gene expression by microbial RNA along with the molecular basis of infectious processes. Her research also focuses on the molecular strategies implemented by bacteria to counter the invasion of pathogens. Ms Charpentier's fundamental work on the identification and detailed characterisation of the CRISPR/Cas9 bacterial immune system has earned her international recognition. She also worked in collaboration with the American biochemist Jennifer Doudna to develop the CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology, a major step forward in the field of genetic engineering for therapeutic purposes. Her discoveries have been recognised by many prestigious awards including the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020. She has also directed the Max Planck Research Center for Pathogen Science in Germany since 2018.

A professor at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in Argentina, Sandra Díaz is an internationally renowned ecologist. A specialist in plant community ecology, she studies the links between the diversity of plant functions, ecosystems, and the benefits provided by nature. Her interdisciplinary work integrates both the life sciences and the societal dimensions of the relationship between humans and nature. Sandra Díaz is also a senior principal investigator at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) in Argentina. She was a co-chair of the Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and a member of the Multidisciplinary Panel of Experts of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). She regularly collaborates with CNRS scientists, particularly in Montpellier (such as Eric Garnier and Cyrille Violle) and Grenoble (such as Sandra Lavorel, who is the 2023 CNRS Gold Medal laureate). Nature magazine named her one of the "10 people who mattered to science" in 2019, and in 2025 she was the first winner of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement with a South American nationality and affiliation. Sandra Díaz was also part of the international committee set up under the responsibility of HCERES, which evaluated the CNRS at the end of 2023.

Soeren Fournais is a specialist in the mathematical aspects of quantum mechanics and a professor at the University of Copenhagen's Department of Mathematical Sciences. Between 2003 and 2006, he was a CNRS researcher and since 2014 has also been a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. Since 2023, he has led the MathBEC project which was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for a five-year period. The project focuses on Bose-Einstein condensation, a phenomenon that occurs at extremely low temperatures and causes a large number of atoms to place themselves in the same fundamental quantum state of the lowest energy. This causes a 'condensate' to form – a 'fifth' state of matter that is neither liquid, gaseous, solid nor a plasma. The objective of the ERC project is to use mathematical equations to rigorously describe the formation of this condensation in a system consisting of a large number of interacting quantum particles.

Mirsolav Krstic is an automation engineer who specialises in nonlinear systems – systems in which small changes to the initial conditions can lead to drastically different results – and the partial differential equations that represent them. His work in such areas has received significant international recognition through awards including the Bode Lecture Prize – the highest award from the IEEE Control Systems Society – in 2023, and the 2021 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award which is the most important award for automation in the United States. He has also made notable contributions to so-called 'extremum-seeking' approaches that aim to identify the optimal operating point for nonlinear systems whose optimal state varies. An example of this is the optimal energy storage point on solar panels that function differently according to the sunlight, clouds crossing the sky and so on. His book Nonlinear and Adaptive Control Design is now a reference textbook for all young automation researchers. Mirsolav Krstic is currently Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD).

A professor at the University of Oxford, Roger Reed is a world-renowned expert in materials science, particularly the metallurgy and mechanical engineering of high-temperature alloys. He is well known for his research on nickel-based superalloys, which are essential for the manufacture and design of structures in many aeronautics and space applications. He is collaborating with French laboratories (and particularly ENSMA in Poitiers) on the question of the impact of corrosion on damage accumulation in these superalloys – a question with crucial application issues in terms of air safety and availability in service. He has been a member of the UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering since 2017, and has held a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair there since 2023. He is particularly well known for his promotion of collaborations between academia and industry. He is a passionate believer in science and engineering, and in particular its capacity to cultivate relationships between peoples and societies across the globe.

Yukari Takamura is a Professor at the Institute for Future Initiatives at the University of Tokyo. Her research focuses on international and environmental law and more specifically on legal and governance issues relating to multilateral environmental agreements as well as climate, energy and biodiversity laws and policies. She received the Minister of the Environment's Environmental Conservation Merit Award in 2018. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Japanese Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies and of the Board of Executive Directors of the Japanese Society for Environmental Law and Policy Studies. Ms Takamura serves as member of governmental advisory bodies, including the Central Environmental Council of which she is President and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Environment Council. She is also a member of the Sustainability Standards Board of Japan (SSBJ) and the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Advisory Group on Climate Change and Sustainable Development. From 2020 to 2023 she was vice-president of the Science Council of Japan (SCJ).

Mark E. Tuckerman is a Professor of Chemistry and Mathematics at New York University. His research covers multiple aspects of theoretical chemistry, ranging from molecular dynamics to ab initio molecular dynamics simulations, statistical mechanics and crystal structure prediction. His research focuses include the quantum effects of confinement, the conductivity of hydroxide ions in fuel cell membranes and the development of new multi-step algorithms that overcome resonance phenomena. Mr Tuckerman has authored nearly 200 publications and received numerous awards, including the Einstein Foundation Berlin's 2024 'Einstein Fellowship Award' and the Dreyfus Foundation's 2022 'Machine Learning in Chemical Sciences and Engineering Award'. He will be hosted in France at Professor Rodolphe Vuilleumier's Laboratoire du Chimie physique et chimie du vivant (CNRS/ENS - PSL/Sorbonne University).

Vincenzo Vitelli is an internationally renowned theoretical physicist from the University of Chicago who works on statistical physics, soft matter and active matter. His research focuses on subjects at the interface between physical science, engineering and mathematics. Mr Vitelli takes a particularly interest in the use of sophisticated mathematical models to explain or suggest experiments. He has thus obtained important results in fields as diverse as metamaterials, information physics, liquid crystals, spin glasses and biophysics. His recent work includes studies on innovative materials, the hydrodynamics of complex matter, non-equilibrium systems and the mathematical modelling of biological systems and is of great interest to the French soft matter and active matter community. In 2024, he notably gave one of the prestigious Niels Bohr Lectures at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen and is also a Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Yifang Wang is considered to be one of China's most prominent scientists for his outstanding contributions to particle physics. He is a professor at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Beijing, which he directed between 2011 and 2024. In particular, he proposed and designed the Daya Bay neutrino oscillation experiment in China, which measured for the first time in 2012 a fundamental parameter of neutrino physics – the mixing angle θ13. This parameter gives the probability of an electron neutrino oscillating towards a neutrino of another flavour. Today he leads of the JUNO experiment, which extends the Daya Bay experiment on a much larger scale and with a greater precision. For this experiment, to which CNRS contributes, he has developed innovative photomultipliers to detect the very weak light signals produced by the rare interactions between neutrinos and JUNO. Winner of numerous national and international prizes (including the Fundamental Physics Breakthrough Award 2016), he is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and, in April 2024, was admitted as an international member of the US Academy of Sciences.

Chihaya Adachi is a Professor at Kyushu University in Japan, and Director of the Centre for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA). His work focuses on chemistry, physics, and the development of organic semiconducting materials for applications in organic photonics and electronics. He was notably behind the development of the third generation of electroluminescent diodes (OLED) made from organic materials with thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF). Adachi has close ties with industry and has cofounded two start-ups: Kyulux in 2014, to develop and market new materials for the OLED market; and Koala Tech in 2019, to develop purely organic laser materials and devices. He has also developed numerous international collaborations, especially with France. Since 2023 he has co-directed, along with Fabrice Mathevet (Paris Institute of Molecular Chemistry), the LUX ERIT International Research Project on organic semiconductors for applications in photonics and optoelectronics.

Emmanuel Boss has served as Professor of Oceanography at the University of Maine in the United States since 2002. After earning a Master’s degree in oceanography in Jerusalem, he completed a PhD on the large-scale modelling of oceanic fluid dynamics at the University of Washington in 1997. His research combines basic and applied research, and focuses on optical methods for studying ocean particulate matter. These methods include in situ measurement as well as satellite remote sensing, notably enabling the study of plankton (French link).

Emmanuel Boss co-chaired an international committee on plankton measurements, and co-lead the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem science team from 2014 to 2017. He is a coordinator for Tara Expeditions (French link), as well as a past member of the International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group and the international scientific steering committees for studies focusing on ocean carbon, in addition to the Surface Ocean and Lower Atmosphere Science group. Boss is interested in the transmission of knowledge, and co-authored a booklet of hands-on activities for teaching oceanography. Finally, he serves as scientific advisor for the Plankton Planet citizen science project.

Pierre A. Deymier is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Arizona. He is also a faculty member at the BIO5 Institute, of the biomedical engineering programme and applied mathematics graduate interdisciplinary programme. Deymier directs the New Frontiers of Sound research centre, which is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, and brings together the research of nine American universities on topological acoustics and its applications.

Deymier completed his PhD at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985, later joining the University of Arizona.

His research covers a broad spectrum in materials science and engineering, including theory, material modelling and simulation, acoustic metamaterials, phononic crystals, and more recently topological acoustics as well as biomaterials. 

In 2023 Deymier was awarded the Bloch Prize from the International Phononics Society for his exceptional and enduring contributions in the field.

Beate Heinemann is Director in charge of Particle Physics at the German national laboratory DESY. As a physicist, she seeks to understand fundamental particles and the role they played in the evolution of the Universe. Her specialisations include weak interaction, as well as research on dark matter at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). She was a member of the H1 experiment at DESY’s HERA accelerator, the CDF experiment at Fermilab’s Tevatron, and the ATLAS experiment at CERN’s LHC, and has also worked for the University of Liverpool and the University of California at Berkeley (United States). Heinemann also served as the deputy spokesperson for the ATLAS experiment (French link) from 2013 to 2017. In 2016, she returned to Germany to assume scientific managerial duties at DESY, and to serve as tenured professor at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg. Since 2022 she has been part of DESY management, as well as a tenured professor at Universität Hamburg. She is a member of the American Physical Society, and since April 2023 the holder of an honorary degree from the University of Zurich. She has established close ties with France during the course of her numerous collaborations on experiments since the mid-1990s.

Originally from Romania, Florian Luca completed a PhD in mathematics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1996, and then conducted various research visits, during which he was notably awarded a Humboldt research fellowship by Bielefeld University in Germany. Since 2014 he has served as professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, after spending 14 years at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

His research essentially focuses on number theory, and more specifically on diophantine equations and arithmetic functions. A specialist in his field, he has co-authored over 500 research articles in mathematics, and in 2005 received a Guggenheim Fellowship as a permanent resident of Latin America. Luca is also involved in the Geometry and Arithmetic International Research Network (IRN GANDA) co-funded by CNRS Mathematics. His current research focuses on the Skolem Problem.

A renowned professor at the Scripps Research Institute, Ardem Patapoutian is a researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Born in Lebanon in 1967, he emigrated to California in 1986 for his undergraduate, doctoral, and postdoctoral studies. In his laboratory at the Novartis Research Foundation (San Diego), he notably identified the cold and menthol receptor, as well as the receptor involved in pain transduction. This scientific advance paved the way for much subsequent research, especially in fields connected to inflammatory pain. In 2010 he discovered the Piezo family of mechanoreceptors, which are the cellular transductors for mechanical pressure. The discovery of the Piezo 1 and Piezo 2 ion channels made it possible, among other things, to study the conservation of mechanosensation mechanisms during evolution. A member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 2020 he was awarded the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience, and in 2021 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with David Julius, for their discovery of the receptors for temperature, touch, and proprioception1.

Initially a mathematical logician, Uli Sauerland completed his PhD in linguistics at MIT in 1998, with Noam Chomsky, Irene Heim, and David Pesetsky serving as his supervisors. Since 2005, he has directed the Semantics and Pragmatics Research Area at the Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) in Berlin, for which he served as deputy director. He regularly teaches as honorary professor at the University of Potsdam, and was a guest professor at a number of European, Asian, and North American universities.

The central question of his research project is the following: what does the study of language reveal regarding human thought? This question has been central to the philosophy of language since at least the 17th century.  Seeking to reconcile the Leibnizian view of language as a “mirror of the mind” with the ideas of Chomsky and others who believe that language appears, in many respects, to be unsuitable for communication, Sauerland explores the hypothesis that representations of thought can be used for language-based communication only after being radically reduced. 

Sauerland’s research includes numerous influential contributions in semantics and pragmatics, and he is also known for his work in the fields of syntax, morphology, and language acquisition. He has conducted fieldwork in the Lesser Sunda Islands and the Amazon, and has also led multiple national and international linguistic research initiatives.

Nicola Spaldin is a Professor of Materials Theory at the Federal Polytechnic School (ETH) of Zurich. After studies in the United Kingdom, she completed her PhD in chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley. She later shifted toward condensed-matter physics, and was a professor for 13 years at the University of Santa Barbara in California, before returning to ETH in 2011. She has made major contributions to the emergence of a new class of materials known as multiferroics, which simultaneously combine ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity. The winner of numerous prizes and awards for her research, including the 2017 L'Oréal-UNESCO Prize for Women in Science, she is a member of the Scientific Board of the European Research Council, as well as the French Academy of Science as a foreign associate in chemistry. She is passionate about teaching science, and received the ETH Golden Owl Prize for teaching excellence. When she is not creating a room temperature superconductor, she likes to play the clarinet, ski and go climbing in the Alps.

Marica Branchesi est professeure titulaire à l'Institut scientifique du Gran Sasso, présidente du conseil scientifique de l'Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica et chercheuse associée à l'Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, en Italie. Elle est membre correspondant de l'Accademia dei Lincei. Son intérêt scientifique porte sur l’astrophysique régissant l'émission, la formation et l'évolution des trous noirs et des étoiles à neutrons. Son activité de recherche vise à développer l'astronomie multi-messagers, qui utilise les observations électromagnétiques et les ondes gravitationnelles pour sonder les phénomènes transitoires les plus énergétiques dans le ciel. Elle préside le comité scientifique d'observation du télescope Einstein, chargé de développer la science des détecteurs d'ondes gravitationnelles de 3ème génération. Membre de la collaboration Virgo, elle a reçu le prix Occhialini en 2020 pour sa participation dans la découverte majestueuse du signal GW170817. En 2017, elle a figuré dans la liste annuelle des 10 personnes les plus importantes dans le domaine de la science (Nature's 10) et, en 2018, dans celle des 100 personnes les plus influentes (Time's 100 most influential people).

Francesco dell'Isola a obtenu son master en physique théorique et son doctorat en physique-mathématique à l'Université de Naples - Frédéric-II. Il a été professeur au sein des universités d'Aix-Marseille, Toulon, Rome, Virginia Tech, Berkeley et Lobachevsky. Il est actuellement professeur et directeur du Centre International de Recherche pour les mathématiques et la mécanique des systèmes complexes (M&MoCS) de l'Université de L’Aquila. Francesco dell'Isola est une référence internationale dans le domaine de l'histoire de la mécanique. En outre, il possède une grande expertise sur la théorie de l'élasticité à gradient de déformation, qui s'applique directement à la mécanique et à la physique à l’échelle micro- et nanoscopique. Ses contributions sont également significatives en mécanique des fluides, notamment pour les écoulements capillaires. F. dell'Isola est bénéficiaire d'une bourse internationale avec l'Université d'État Lobachevsky en Russie depuis 2018. Il est également membre du comité éditorial de nombreuses revues internationales majeures en mécanique et en mathématiques (Acta Mechanica, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Modern Engineering…).

Maurice Herlihy est titulaire d'un master en mathématiques de l'université de Harvard et d'un doctorat en informatique du M.I.T. Il a fait partie du corps enseignant de l'université de Carnegie Mellon et du personnel du laboratoire de recherche DEC de Cambridge. Il a rejoint l'université Brown en 1994, où il est actuellement professeur d'informatique. Il travaille sur les aspects théoriques et pratiques des systèmes concurrents et distribués et a joué un rôle important dans le développement des multiprocesseurs grâce à la notion de mémoire transactionnelle logicielle qu'il a inventée avec J. Eliot B. Moss et qui a été appliquée dans les processeurs d'Intel et d'IBM. Il a reçu le prix Dijkstra 2003 en informatique distribuée, le prix Gödel 2004 en informatique théorique, le prix ISCA 2008 de l'article le plus influent, le prix Edsger W. Dijkstra en 2012 et le prix Wallace McDowell 2013. Il a reçu en 2012 une bourse Fulbright pour une chaire en sciences naturelles et en ingénierie, et il est fellow de l'Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), de la National Academy of Inventors, de la National Academy of Engineering et de la National Academy of Arts and Sciences. En 2022, il a remporté son troisième prix Dijkstra.

Anne L’Huillier est une physicienne qui travaille sur l’interaction des champs laser courts et intenses avec les atomes.  Née à Paris, elle a fait ses études en France. En 1986, elle a obtenu un poste de chercheuse au CEA (Paris-Saclay) pour ensuite rejoindre en 1995 l’Université de Lund où elle est actuellement professeur de physique. Anne L’Huillier dirige un groupe de recherche qui étudie la dynamique des électrons à l’échelle attoseconde, ce qui pourrait permettre une meilleure compréhension des réactions chimiques au niveau moléculaire. Elle a été lauréate de trois bourses ERC Advanced. Parmi les prix récents, le prix Max Born (2021) a récompensé Anne L’Huillier pour son « travail pionnier dans la science des lasers ultrarapides et la physique attoseconde, réalisant et comprenant la génération d’harmoniques d’ordre élevé et l’appliquant à l’imagerie temporelle du mouvement des électrons dans les atomes et les molécules ». En 2022, elle a reçu le prix Wolf de physique pour ses « contributions pionnières à la science des lasers ultrarapides et à la physique attoseconde ».

Alejandro Maass a étudié les mathématiques à l'université du Chili, où il a obtenu un diplôme d'ingénieur en 1990. Il a ensuite déménagé en France où il a obtenu son doctorat à l'Institut de mathématiques de Luminy de l'Université Aix-Marseille en 1994, puis il a rejoint le département d'ingénierie mathématique de l'université du Chili. En 2000, il est membre du premier International Research Laboratory (IRL) créé à Santiago par le CNRS avec l’Université du Chili, hébergé au Centre de modélisation mathématique (CMM). Il dirige cet IRL de 2017 à 2021. Reconnu internationalement pour ses travaux en théorie ergodique et en biologie des systèmes, il reçoit en 2009 le prix de l'Union mathématique d'Amérique latine et des Caraïbes en reconnaissance d'un « travail remarquable, stimulant pour de futures contributions aux mathématiques ». En 2007, en reconnaissance de sa forte coopération scientifique avec la France, il est nommé Chevalier de l'ordre national du Mérite. Il travaille aujourd’hui en collaboration avec la Fondation TARA Océan au Chili, pour l’analyse des données océaniques qu’elle recueille.

Professeur J.C. Warner de sciences naturelles à l'Université de Carnegie Mellon, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski est mondialement reconnu comme le père de la polymérisation radicalaire par transfert d'atomes (ATRP). Cette méthode de synthèse de polymères a révolutionné la fabrication de ces macromolécules. Il s’agit d’un procédé catalytique à base de cuivre très simple à mettre en œuvre qui permet de préparer facilement des macromolécules aux architectures complexes comme les copolymères multiblocs, ramifiés, ou même en étoile. Ces architectures permettent de combiner à l'échelle d’une même molécule différentes propriétés comme l’hydrophobie et l’hydrophilie, la dureté et l’élasticité, la conduction et l’isolation, l’activité optique, la biodégradabilité, etc. De tels copolymères trouvent de nombreuses applications dans le domaine biomédical ou l’industrie cosmétique et agro-alimentaire. L’équipe du Professeur Matyjaszewsky continue de développer ces techniques de polymérisation afin de les rendre encore plus souples, versatiles et écoresponsables pour permettre leur transfert vers l’industrie, mais étudie également la possibilité de les adapter à la fonctionnalisation de surfaces ou de nanoparticules.

Éminent professeur à l'Institut des sciences médicales et au département de physique du Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Leonid Mirny est membre de la Société américaine de physique et membre associé du Broad Institute. Depuis 2015, il est codirecteur du 4D Nucleome Center for Structure and Physics of the Genome, financé par le National Institutes of Health. Ses travaux combinent des approches fondées sur la physique et l'analyse de données génomiques pour résoudre des problèmes fondamentaux en biologie. L'élément central de ses recherches est la compréhension des processus qui régissent l’organisation tridimensionnelle des longues molécules d'ADN, et l'élucidation de la manière dont cette organisation régule le bon fonctionnement du génome ou conduit à son dysfonctionnement en cas de maladie. En 2021 et 2022, il a eu l'honneur de figurer dans le classement Highly Cited Researchers, qui recense au niveau mondial le top 0,1 % des chercheurs les plus fréquemment cités au cours de la dernière décennie.  En tant que lauréat de la Chaire d'excellence Blaise Pascal, il a passé quinze mois à l'Institut Curie en 2021-2022.

Après avoir obtenu son doctorat à Caltech et travaillé comme postdoc à Shell, Amsterdam, en 1995, Jeff Morris a rejoint Georgia Tech en tant que professeur adjoint (1996-2002). Il a ensuite travaillé chez Halliburton en tant que conseiller scientifique principal (2002-2004) puis rejoint le City College of New York (CCNY) en 2005, où il travaille toujours. Jeff Morris a dirigé le département de génie chimique au CCNY (2013-2016) et a été nommé directeur intérimaire (2015) puis directeur de l'Institut Levich en janvier 2016, position qu'il occupe encore aujourd'hui. La liste des anciens directeurs de l'Institut Benjamin Levich comprend d'éminents chercheurs en ingénierie tels que Benjamin Levich, Andreas Acrivos et Morton Denn. Jeff Morris a plus de 12 000 citations (Google Scholar), plusieurs brevets et est l'auteur d'un livre intitulé A Physical Introduction to Suspension Dynamics, avec E. Guazzelli, DR CNRS. Il est rédacteur en chef adjoint du Journal of Fluid Mechanics et fait partie des comités de rédaction de Rheologica Acta et de l'International Journal of Multiphase Flow. Il a reçu plusieurs distinctions et prix, notamment le Journal of Rheology Publication Award (2015 et 2020), le prix Corrsin 2019 de l'American Physical Society, le prix Weissenberg 2022 de la Société européenne de rhéologie, ainsi que la médaille Bingham 2023 de la Société de rhéologie.

Saul Perlmutter est un scientifique américain spécialisé dans la cosmologie et co-lauréat du prix Nobel de physique 2011 pour la découverte de l'accélération de l'expansion de l'Univers. Il est professeur de physique à l'université de Californie à Berkeley, où il est titulaire de la chaire Franklin W. et Karen Weber Dabby, et chercheur au sein du Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).  Monsieur Perlmutter dirige le projet international « Supernova Cosmology Project ». Il est directeur du « Berkeley Institute for Data Science » et directeur exécutif du « Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics ». Il a obtenu son diplôme de premier cycle à Harvard et son doctorat à l'université de Berkeley.  Récipiendaire de nombreux prix et distinctions, il est membre de l'Académie nationale des sciences et de l'Académie américaine des arts et des sciences, ainsi que de la Société américaine de physique et de l'Association américaine pour l'avancement des sciences.  M. Perlmutter a également écrit des articles de vulgarisation et est apparu dans de nombreux documentaires de PBS, Discovery Channel et de la BBC.  Il enseigne la pensée critique aux scientifiques et non-scientifiques à travers deux cours donnés à Berkeley : « sens, sensibilité et science » et « physique et musique ».

Laurajane Smith est directrice du Centre of Heritage and Museum Studies à la Research School of Humanities and the Arts de l'Université nationale australienne. Elle est membre de l’Académie des sciences sociales d'Australie et membre affiliée du Cambridge Heritage Research Centre. En 2010-2012, elle a travaillé à la création de l'Association of Critical Heritage Studies. Elle est rédactrice en chef de l'International Journal of Heritage Studies et co-rédactrice en chef, avec le Dr Gönül Bozoğlu, de la série de livres Key Issues in Cultural Heritage éditée chez Routledge. Parmi ses ouvrages, figurent Uses of Heritage (2006) et Emotional Heritage (2021). Elle a également édité de nombreuses collections, notamment Intangible Heritage (2009) et Safeguarding Intangible Heritage (2019), toutes deux avec Natsuko Akagawa, ainsi qu’Emotion, Affective Practices, and the Past in the Present (2018, avec Margret Wetherell et Gary Campbell) et Heritage, Labour and the Working Class (2011, avec Paul A. Shackel et Gary Campbell). Laurajane Smith a reçu de nombreuses récompenses, parmi lesquelles un doctorat honoris causa décerné en 2018 par l'université d'Anvers (Belgique) pour ses mérites scientifiques.