Schedule
Panel discussion - "the future of science"
At <interact> 2018, you will have the chance to raise your doubts and discuss them with a distinguished panel of experts in various fields of science.
Which emerging fields will gain most interest in the coming years?
Which new scientific discoveries will soon be applied in real life?
Is free-access in science an option?
What is possible - what is not?
How will ethics deal with new techniques that might challenge human principles or morals?
In which direction will the academic world develop in the next few years?
How can we improve science reproducibility?
Can we ever reach gender balance?
Since <interact> is celebrating its 10th anniversary, we want the students and speakers to debate the “hot topics” that will influence scientific work today, change reality in the near future and might have far reaching consequences for the next 10 years. Come along and speak up!
Maria Karpova
Pharmaceutical Industry
Tissue Biomarker scientist at
Roche Innovation Centre Munich
Tobias K. Vogt
Pharmaceutical Industry
Head of Medical Launch
Excellence & Transformation
in Merck Biopharma
Moderator
Neysan Donnelly
copy editor, proofreader and scientific writer
founder of CLEARSCIENCE
Stuart Firestein
Writing
Professor at Columbia University
Visiting Fellow at Paris Science et Lettres (PSL)
Books:
Ignorance (2012) & Failure (2015)
Andreas Kurtz
Ethics
The European Group on Ethics in
Science and New Technologies
Stem cell biologist
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Kyle Legate
Publishing
Team manager at
Nature Communications
with background in
membrane protein biochemistry
Barbara Conradt
Academia
Professor at the Department of Cell and Development Biology - LMU Munich
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