Dr Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, philosopher and literary scholar. He is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and of the Royal Society of Arts, as well as a former Clinical Director of the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospital, London. His previous book, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World reached international recognition and acclaim and has placed him as one of the greatest thinkers and philosophers of our time.

Denis Noble CBE FRS is a world renowned physiologist. He held the Burdon Sanderson Chair of Cardiovascular Physiology at Oxford, and was appointed Professor Emeritus and co-Director of Computational Physiology. Professor Noble is one of the pioneers of systems biology and developed the first viable mathematical model of the working heart. He is one of the founders of the new field of Systems Biology and is the author of the first popular science book on the subject, The Music of Life (2006).

Dimitra Rigopoulou is Professor of Astrophysics at Oxford. Prior to her arrival at Oxford, she worked at the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany. Her research activity focuses on the physics behind the processes that govern star formation in galaxies.

Benedict Rattigan is Director of the Schweitzer Institute, a think-tank that promotes an ethic of ‘reverence for life’ through educational programs, community outreach projects, a peer-reviewed journal and university conferences. He is Joint Supervising Editor, with Denis Noble, of Bi-Symmetrics: The Journal of Symmetry & Asymmetry.