Futureproof With Jonathan Mccrea

Les Johnson - Author & Space Technologist

In this special episode of Futureproof we look at Face Blindness and super recognition with Professor Fiona Newell - Professor of Experimental Psychology at the Trinity Institiute of Neurosciences and Meike Ramon - Cognitive neuroscientist and Assistant Professor at the University of Fribourg

Dr John Breen - Chief Technology Officer of NEG8 Carbon @NEG8Carbon

Guests this week:Dr Aidan Boran - Founder/CEO at Digital Gait Labs @aidan_boran & Professor Seán Kennelly - Consultant Geriatrician and Director of the Institute of Memory & Cognition at Tallaght University Hospital (TUH) @SPKennelly @TUH_Tallaght

George Musser - Contributing editor for Scientific American magazine and author of Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation: Why Physicists Are Studying Human Consciousness and AI to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe

Professor Johanna Vos - Assistant Professor in the School of Physics at Trinity College

Dr. Siobhan Power - Geologist with the Geological Survey Ireland

John Krakauer - Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, and Director of the Center for the Study of Motor Learning and Brain Repair at Johns Hopkins

Fabian Klenner is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Washington

Jules Howard - Zoological Correspondent and Author of Infinite Life: A Revolutionary Story of Eggs, Evolution and Life on Earth

John Whitfield is a Science journalist and Author

Professor Arun Misra is a Thomas Workman Emeritus Professor in Mechanical Engineering at McGill University.

Sam Van Wessenbergh is a Research Professor in the Laboratory for Functional Morphology of the Department of Biology at the University of Antwerp

Joseph Meany is a Science consultant and board member of the IRG (Interstellar Research Group)

Mike Benton is Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology at University of Bristol and author of Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves

Philip Goff is Professor of Philosophy at Durham University and author of Why? The Purpose of the Universe

Bryan Choi - Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School and Associate Director of the Centre for Brain Tumour Immunology and Immunotherapy at Mass General (Massachusetts General Hospital)

Jimo Borjigin is Associate Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology at the University of Michigan

Vanessa Collingridge is an Author, Broadcaster and Doctor of Historical CartographyHelene Courtois is Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Lyon and Author of Finding Our Place In The Universe

Annie Jacobsen is a Bestselling author & Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of DARPA - The Pentagon's Brain