WHO ARE THE EXPLAINABLES?
Dr. Daniel Angerhausen
Daniel is the explainables’ Master of the Universe. As an Astrophysicist and Astrobiologist he worked on the search for life in space for NASA and at other prestigious institutions such as RPI or Caltech. Dr. Angerhausen is an Alda Center and Famelab alumnus, that gave more than 100 presentations over the past 5 years. Daniel traveled over 40 countries and communicates between cultures in German, English and French.
DR. JESSE JOHN
Jesse is a Graduate Researcher at the State University of New York at Stony Brook's Geosciences Department. He is the explainables’ expert for all things material science and nano-technology. Jesse is an Alda Center and Famelab alumnus. He lives in Brooklyn from where he runs our New York office.
Amran Salleh
Amran is the creative head of the explainables. Working as an independent designer he is passionate about creating brand worlds and communication concepts. He realized conceptions for several exhibitions in Latvia, Italy and Germany. Amran's main objective is to close the gap between science an its graphic visualization. Based in Hamburg, Germany, he extends our network to Europe.
Dr. Dan J Bower
Dan is in a geocentric orbit, applying his craft as an Earth scientist to understand the nature of our home planet and now other terrestrial worlds both within and beyond the solar system. He's a big picture geoscientist, with a preoccupation for unraveling the complexity of Earth through a variety of theoretical and modelling approaches. Study of Earth has provided Dan with a multifaceted toolkit of methods and skills for elucidating complex systems, as well as a passion for distilling key messages to specialist and non-specialist audiences. He has lived and worked in North America and Europe, and remains committed to inspiring the next generation of leaders in business, science, and technology.
Sarah Blumenthal
Sarah or "Sally" is an ex-opera singer gone astrochemist. She currently works as a contracted scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and will start the Astrophysics PhD program Spring of 2017 at The University of Exeter. Before researching exoplanets, she performed extensively as a professional singer starting at the age of 12. Her background in stage performance brings a unique perspective to the art of science communication.
Isaac Simpson
Isaac is a journalist, author, and copywriter based in Los Angeles. His essays and gonzo journalism have appeared in Vice, LA Weekly, Complex, Vox, Curbed, The Daily Dot, and LosAngeles.com. As an Alda Center alumni, he is passionate about communicating science, and teaches the Distilling the Message portion of Inspiring Research: Creative Strategies for Communication, a week-long workshop for science graduate students at UC-San Diego. His first book, a travel memoir titled Philosophy and Fucking in Vietnam, was published by Outlaw Publishing in 2015.
