Position/Organization: professor of physics, University of Miami, Florida

Neil Johnson, Ph.D., is a professor of physics at the University of Miami in Florida, where he heads a new interdisciplinary research group on complexity dealing with such seemingly unrelated phenomena as quantum entanglement in nanostructures and the evolution of human disease.

http://web.physics.miami.edu/People/NeilJohnson.html

njohnson@physics.miami.edu

305-333-6920

Position/Organization: Professor of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Director of the Autism Program, Yale School of Medicine.

Ami Klin, Ph.D., is Professor of Child Psychology and Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine’s Child Study Center (CSC), and director of the CSC’s Autism Program. He focuses on neuroimaging, child psychiatry, social work, and genetics.

http://info.med.yale.edu/chldstdy/autism/

ami.klin@yale.edu

203-785-3565

Position/Organization: chief financial officer, World Federation of Science Journalists

Position/Organization: senior staff writer, ClimateCentral; former science and environment writer, TIME Magazine

Michael D. Lemonick is the senior writer at Climate Central, a nonprofit organization dedicated to presenting nonpartisan science-based information about climate change to policymakers and the general public. Prior to joining Climate Central, he spent nearly 21 years at TIME Magazine, where he wrote more than 50 cover stories on topics ranging from climate change to genomics to particle physics before stepping down as a Senior Science Writer in early 2007.