Interviews
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Rachel Mazac: 'The whole food system needs to change'
Rachel Mazac is a postdoctoral researcher at Stockholm University’s Stockholm Resilience Centre, working on food systems transformation for sustainability in a globalised context for Sweden and at the broader Nordic and EU levels. She focuses her research on the nexus of global food systems sustainability,... -
Mark Post: 'The future of lab-grown meat is promising'
Mark Post is a co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Mosa Meat, a European food technology company that grows beef directly from animal cells as well as co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Qorium which grows leather in a similar fashion. Mark Post is Professor of Sustainable Industrial Tissue... -
Prof. John O’Keefe: 'Politicians and researchers should think about AI regulation'
Interview with Professor John O’Keefe about the future of artificial intelligence in science and society. John O'Keefe, professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College in London (UK), was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014. He won the prize together with May-Britt Moser... -
Prof. Morten Meldal: 'Science should be done without constraint'
Interview with Professor Morten Meldal on academic freedom and his idea about creating artificial intelligence especially for research. In 2022, Prof. Morten Meldal was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry". Click chemistry means that... -
Interview with Prof. Stuart Haszeldine on increasing carbon storage capacity
"50 Million tonnes of carbon storage capacity is welcome but it needs to be double that - we're already 50 years late on a 50 year problem", says Stuart Haszeldine, Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage Director and Professor of Carbon Capture and Storage at the University of Edinburgh (UK). Professor... -
Professor Mathieu Lucquiaud: 'You cannot get to net zero without carbon capture and storage'
Interview with Mathieu Lucquiaud, Professor of Clean Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield (UK). Professor Lucquiaud’s research focuses on the role of CCS technologies in energy systems, their commercial deployment, and how... -
Interview with researcher Felix Irmer on data journalism, society and distrust
"Data journalism, journalism informed by quantitative evidence, is an expanding field", says researcher Felix Irmer, of the Institute of Communication and Media Studies, Leipzig University (Germany). He was one of the speakers at the European Science-Media Hub Summer School from 6-10 June 2023. Data... -
Interview with Kai Kupferschmidt on the importance of trust in journalism and a functioning information ecosystem
"The only way that our work will have an impact on the world is if people believe it to be true. Showing people how journalism works will help to foster trust", says science journalist Kai Kupferschmidt. Kai, based in Berlin, studied molecular biomedicine and afterwards attended the Berlin Journalism...