Contributors
The Breakers
Meet the scientists who translate their research into accessible Breaks. Every Breaker is an active researcher from an academic or non-profit institution, sharing discoveries in their own words.
1,402 contributors worldwide
Ruben Abagyan
Professor
Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC san Diego Health, La Jolla, CA, USA
Claudine Abegg
PhD student
Département F.-A. Forel des sciences de l’environnement et de l’eau, Université de Genève, Genève, Switzerland
Rachel P. M. Abrams
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Oscar A. Campos
Postdoctoral scholar
Department of Biological Chemistry at the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
Nicola Aceto
Assistant Professor
University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Thom Achterbosch
Researcher
Wageningen University and Research, The Hague, The Netherlands
Byron A. Adams
Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow
School of Earth Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Funmilayo Adebesin
PhD student
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2010, USA
Nina Adler
PhD student
University of Toronto
Alexandre Aebi
Senior Lecturer
Laboratory of Soil Biodiversity, University of Neuchâtel, Rue Emile-Argand 11, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Emma J. Agnew
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Molecular Cardiovascular Biology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Javier Aguilera-Lizarraga
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Laboratory for Intestinal Neuroimmune Interactions, Translational Research Center for Gastrointestinal Disorders, KU Leuven Department of Chronic Diseases, Metabolism and Ageing, Leuven, Belgium
Ignacio Aiello
Assistant Professor
Laboratorio de Cronobiología, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Despoina AI Mavridou
University of Texas-Austin
Maria Akhmanova
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
IST Austria
Holly Akilesh
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, USA
Olivier A. Kirchhoffer
PhD Student
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Carmelia Alae-Carew
Research Assistant
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Rebecca Albright
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford University, CA, USA
Lewis Alcott
PhD student
University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Samantha A. Alger
Assistant Research Professor
Biology Department, University of Vermont, Marsh Life Sciences, Burlington, VT, USA
Gerit A. Linneweber
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Division of Neurobiology, Institute for Biology, Free University, Berlin, Germany
Mohammad Reza Alizadeh
PhD Student
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Sarah Allen
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Institut für Zellbiologie, Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland
David Alsteens
Professor
Louvain Institute of Bimolecular Science and Technology, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
Joel M. Alves
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Federica Amici
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Renato A. M. Silvano
Professor
PPG Ecology and Department of Ecology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Fisheries and Food Institute, UNISANTA, Santos SP, Brazil
Rozalyn Anderson
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin Madison, & Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison WI
Steve Anderson
PhD student
Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Miranda Anderson
Research Fellow
Philosophy and Literature, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland
Leif Andersson
Professor
Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Aida Andrades Valtueña
Postdoctoral Researcher
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Ioan Andricioaei
Associate Professor
University of California, Irvine, California, USA
Vegard Antun
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK; Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Norway
Lior Appelbaum
Professor
The Faculty of Life Sciences and The Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Iair Arcavi
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Physics Broida Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Ciprian F. Ardelean
University of Zacatecas
Debbie Argue
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Archaeology and Anthropology, College of Arts and Social Science, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Marie Armani-Tourret
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard
Lucia Armillotta
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
David Armstrong
Assistant Professor
Centre for Exoplanets and Habitability, Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Elizabeth Atkinson
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Massachusetts General Hospital and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA
Gal Atlan
PhD student
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Jerusalem
Fabien Aubry
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Insect-Virus Interactions Unit, Institut Pasteur, CNRS, Paris, France
Satoshi Awata
Professor
Osaka Metropolitan University
John Axelsson
Professor
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Armando Azua-Bustos
Research Scientist
Centro de Astrobiología, Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial, Madrid, Spain