Nobel Week Dialogue
Our line up of panellists participating in this year's Nobel Week Dialogue include world-leading experts and inspiring thought leaders.
Anthony Aguirre
Anthony Aguirre is the Faggin Professor of the Physics of Information at University of California at Santa Cruz.
Nobel Prize laureate
Frances Arnold
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018.
Frances Arnold received the chemistry prize for pioneering directed enzyme evolution methods used widely for applications across medicine, consumer products, agriculture, fuels and chemicals.
Pamela Bjorkman
Pamela Bjorkman is the David Baltimore Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering and a Merkin Institute Professor at Caltech.
Camilla Bredberg
Camilla Bredberg teaches Geography and Natural Science at Blackeberg Gymnasium in Stockholm. She is committed to helping her students take on the climate crisis by sharing insights concerning the importance of the efforts of all towards finding solutions.
Camilla Brudin Borg
Camilla Brudin Borg concluded her education at the University of Gothenburg with a PhD in Literary studies in 2005. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre in Copenhagen.
Paola Caselli
Paola Caselli studied astronomy and molecular spectroscopy at the University of Bologna, where she obtained her PhD in Astronomy in 1994, after extensive work in the United States at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Steven Chu
Nobel Prize in Physics 1997.
Steven Chu developed the theory of laser cooling of actual, multilevel atoms and has recently focused on new solutions to our energy and climate challenges.
Beatrice Fihn
Beatrice Fihn is the executive director of ICAN, the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize-awarded campaign coalition that works to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons.
Nobel Prize laureate
Andrea Ghez
Nobel Prize in Physics 2020.
Andrea Ghez is professor of physics and astronomy and Lauren B. Leichtman & Arthur E. Levine chair in Astrophysics at University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA). Ghez is one of the world’s leading experts in observational astrophysics and heads UCLA’s Galactic Center Group.
Nobel Prize laureate
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Nobel Prize in Literature 2021.
Abdulrazak Gurnah received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novels which explore the effects of colonialism and the fate of refugees.
Nobel Prize laureate
Serge Haroche
Serge Haroche shares the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Wineland for “ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems.”
Alice Heiman
Alice Heiman is a student with a passion for exploring the world through the lens of technology. She started to teach coding at 15 within the non-profit organisation Hello World! Since then, Heiman has advocated getting programming into the Swedish educational curriculum.
Carl-Henrik Heldin
Carl-Henrik Heldin is a cancer researcher interested in the elucidation of signalling pathways regulating cell proliferation, migration and survival, and how these pathways are perturbed in cancer cells. He is the chair of the Boards of the Nobel Foundation.
Tom Kirkwood
Tom Kirkwood studies why and how we age. He proposed the disposable soma theory to explain evolution of ageing, and pioneered the use of network approaches to investigate the complexity of its underlying mechanisms.
Carin Klaesson
Carin Klaesson is the Content Manager for Public Programs at Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.
Nobel Prize laureate
Benjamin List
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021
List is a director of research at Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim, Ruhr. He also heads a research group at Hokkaido University in Japan and is an honorary professor at the University of Cologne.
Helga Nowotny
Helga Nowotny is former president of the European Research Council and professor emerita of Science and Technology Studies, ETH Zurich, and a founding member of the European Research Council.
Nobel Prize laureate
Paul Nurse
Paul Nurse is Director of the Francis Crick Institute in London, Chancellor of the University of Bristol, and has served as President of the Royal Society, Chief Executive of Cancer Research UK and President of Rockefeller University. He shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Hilmar Petursson
Hilmar has been leading CCP Games’ ongoing success and growth since his appointment as Chief Executive Officer in 2004.
Nobel Prize laureate
Didier Queloz
Nobel Prize in Physics 2019.
Didier Queloz received the Nobel Prize for his discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a star outside our solar system. His research has continued to focus on exoplanet systems, and more recently on the detection of Earth-like planets and universal life.
Stuart Russell
Stuart Russell is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley, holder of the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering, and Director of the Center for Human-Compatible AI and the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public.
Anders Sandberg
Anders Sandberg is senior research fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) at the University of Oxford.
Birgit Skarstein
Birgit Skarstein is a Norwegian Paralympic athlete competing in rowing and Nordic skiing. She is seven time World Champion in rowing and gold medalist in the Paralympic Games in Tokyo 2021.
Adam Smith
As chief scientific officer for Nobel Prize Outreach, Adam Smith has played a key role in putting together the Nobel Week Dialogue. His background is in scientific research and science publishing.
Laura Sprechmann
Laura Sprechmann is CEO for Nobel Prize Outreach, the company that aims to spread knowledge and raise interest in the Nobel Prize-awarded achievements to a global audience, through digital media and international events.
Karin Svensson
Karin Svensson, producer of the podcast Nobel Prize Conversations, is a Stockholm-based independent journalist and broadcaster.
Juleen Zierath
Juleen Zierath is professor of clinical integrative physiology and a member of the Nobel Committee at Karolinska lnstitutet.