Stephen James Merchant is a comedian, author, filmmaker, and actor from England. Alongside Ricky Gervais, he co-wrote, c... View More

Stephen James Merchant is a comedian, author, filmmaker, and actor from England. Alongside Ricky Gervais, he co-wrote, co-directed, and co-starred in Extras and Life's Too Short. He was also a co-writer and co-director of the British TV comedy series The Office. View Less

From February 2015 to December 2022, British scholar Professor Dame Janet Patricia Beer, DBE, was the University of Live... View More

From February 2015 to December 2022, British scholar Professor Dame Janet Patricia Beer, DBE, was the University of Liverpool's vice chancellor. After serving as Pro-Vice Chancellor Academic and Dean of Humanities, Law, and Social Sciences at Manchester Metropolitan University and Vice-Chancellor at Oxford Brookes University, she succeeded Howard Newby. View Less

Robert Calderbank is the director of Duke University's Information Initiative and a professor of mathematics, electrical... View More

Robert Calderbank is the director of Duke University's Information Initiative and a professor of mathematics, electrical engineering, and computer science. He earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Warwick University in 1975, an MSc from Oxford in 1976, and a doctorate from Caltech in 1980. In 1980, he began working at Bell Labs, and in 2003, he retired as Vice President for Research and Internet and Network Systems at AT&T Labs. After that, he taught mathematics, electrical engineering, and applied and computational mathematics at Princeton until relocating to Duke in 2010 to take the position of dean of natural sciences. View Less

At the University of East Anglia's Norwich Medical School, Colin S. Cooper, a renowned cancer researcher, serves as Prof... View More

At the University of East Anglia's Norwich Medical School, Colin S. Cooper, a renowned cancer researcher, serves as Professor of Cancer Genetics. Cooper received his PhD in biochemistry from the University of Birmingham in 1978 after studying science at the University of Warwick. He was the Chair of Molecular Biology at the University of London before joining the Institute of Cancer Research. View Less