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Nine Future Visions

January 2009

Nine Future Visions

Subject: Nine Visions of the Future

Climate change, excessive emissions of greenhouse gases, the need to find alternative sources of energy: we face many challenges in the coming century. For the past year Comment Visions has sought the views of scientists and industrialists on how we may find solutions. Euronews travelled to Norway, Sweden, France, Turkey, Spain, Britain, Switzerland and the Netherlands, seeking out those who were working at the frontiers of knowledge....Read More
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Nine Future Visions

December 2008

Nine Future Visions

Subject: Nine Visions of the Future

Climate change, excessive emissions of greenhouse gases, the need to find alternative sources of energy: we face many challenges in the coming century. For the past year Comment Visions has sought the views of scientists and industrialists on how we may find solutions. Euronews travelled to Norway, Sweden, France, Turkey, Spain, Britain, Switzerland and the Netherlands, seeking out those who were working at the frontiers of knowledge....Read More
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Miroslav Radman

November 2008

Miroslav Radman

Subject: Designing Life

Professor Miroslav Radman is an international authority in the revolutionary and fast-changing field of evolutionary biotechnology. Born in Split, Croatia, he holds degrees from the Universities of Zagreb and Brussels and has held teaching and research posts at Harvard University.... Read More
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Nigel Arnell

October 2008

Nigel Arnell

Subject: The Future of Weather

Professor Nigel Arnell has been the Director of the Walker Institute for Climate Systems Research at the University of Reading since August 2007. Prior to taking up this post, he was head of Geography at the University of Southampton where he obtained his PhD and BSC in the 1980’s before returning to lecture there...... Read More
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Didier Sornette

September 2008

Didier Sornette

Subject: Forecasting the Future

Didier Sornette is an expert on complexity theory. After completing a masters thesis in 1981 he went on to study the statistical physics of interfaces, chaos and turbulence.He was awarded a doctorate in physical sciences at the University of Nice in his native France in 1985... Read More
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José Esquinas-Alcázar

August 2008

José Esquinas-Alcázar

Subject: Food, Fuel and Biodiversity

José Esquinas-Alcázar received his M.Sc. in Vegetable Crops and a Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of California at Davis. He has taught in numerous universities, mainly in Europe and Latin America, in the fields of genetics, plant breeding, agronomy, agrarian development, and UN system and international cooperation. He is currently a professor of Plant Production at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain, as well as Director of Studies on Hunger and Poverty at the University of Córdoba, Spain....

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Stefano Stramigioli

July 2008

Stefano Stramigioli

Subject: Automation - can clever devices be the answer to saving energy?

Stefano Stramigioli received the M.Sc. with honors (cum laude) in 1992 and the Ph.D with honors (cum laude) in 1998. Since 1998 he has been a faculty member and is currently full professor of the chair of Advanced Robotics at the University of Twente, an entrepreneurial research university in Enschede, Netherlands....

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Athena Coustenis

June 2008

Athena Coustenis

Subject: Some ideas for producing energy seem completely unrealistic today, but are there, in fact, new technologies waiting to be developed that we are yet to explore?

Based at the Observatoire de Paris, Dr Athena Coustenis is the world's pre-eminent expert on Titan, the Saturn moon that has fascinated astronomers and astrophysicists since its discovery in 1655.

Born in Athens, Greece, Dr Coustenis moved to France to study, receiving her PhD Astrophysics and Space Techniques in 1989 for her research into Titan. In the past two decades, as technological development has allowed space exploration to expand, she has deepened her fascination with Titan and in particular it's atmosphere and environment....

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Ahmet Lokurlu

May 2008

Ahmet Lokurlu

Subject: Renewable energy: can it ever replace fossil fuels, or do other sources have to be explored?

Dr Ahmet Lokurlu is a Turkish engineer, entrepreneur and the founder of Solitem GmbH, a pioneering company at the forefront of eco-technology.

Dr Lokurlu studied mechanical engineering in his native Turkey, before moving to the University of Essen in Germany to study energy engineering. In 1993 he began to investigate methods for harnessing the power of the sun for environmental gain, the work forming the centre of his PhD research. The system he developed during his doctoral studies uses solar power to provide air conditioning for buildings....

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Bjorn Stigson

April 2008

Bjorn Stigson

Subject: Sustainable Development - is it a Realistic Solution?

Bjorn Stigson has been President of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development since 1995. An expert on the challenges of sustainable development, his background in international business has enabled him to lead the WBCSD over the past decade as it has established itself as the world’s leading organisation focused on business and sustainable development... read more

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Olav Orheim

March 2008

Olav Orheim

Subject: How Can We Solve the Challenge of Climate Change?

Dr. Olav Orheim is a distinguished glaciologist, climatologist and polar expert who has spent more than thirty years studying the effects of global warming... read more

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