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Dr Anuj Misra is a historian and philosopher of mathematics who works on medieval and early modern sources in Sanskrit and Islamicate mathematical astronomy.
Dr Valerie Shrimplin was awarded her PhD for her research entitled 'Sun Symbolism and Cosmology in Michelangelo’s ‘Last Judgment’'. She has subsequently produced a number of academic publications focusing on the influence of astronomy and cosmology on art and architecture
Dava Sobel is an author of popular expositions of scientific topics, having written works such as Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter and The Glass Universe. She is also a former science reporter for the New York Times.
Laure is the Lyell Fellow in Latin Palaeography at the Faculty of History of the University of Oxford, and a Dilts Fellow, at Lincoln College. She is a historian of late medieval Europe, specialising in manuscript studies with a special
Eva Kaufholz-Soldat studied mathematics and history of mathematics at the University of Hamburg and received her diploma with a technical thesis on the beginnings of matrix calculus in the theory of bilinear forms, up to its establishment through the representation
Professor Andersson is Deputy Head of Research, Head of the General Relativity Group and a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Southampton.
Distinguished University Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Amsterdam and President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Dijkgraaf studied physics and mathematics at Utrecht University. He gained his PhD cum laude in 1989 with