Contributors to the issue: From Big Bang to Nanorobots
Vasilenko, Vasily N.
Doctor of Philosophy, author, editor-in-chief of the e-almanac ‘Noosphere of the XXI century’ (URL: http://noos.vgi.volsu.ru; https://www.socionauki.ru); senior staff scientist at Volzhsky Institute of Humanities, affiliate of Volgograd State University and Volgograd Centre for Social Studies; Full...
Ponomariov, Ilya V.
Graduated from Moscow State University. He defended his PhD dissertation in social anthropology at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Science (RAS). He is a senior research fellow at the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is an author...
Morrison, Jane Gray
Ecologist, author and filmmaker whose work has taken her to over 30 countries. As a filmmaker, Ms. Morrison has produced numerous films for such networks as Dis-covery, PBS (for which she also co-directed ‘A Day in the Life of Ireland’ for Irish Television and WNET) and Turner Broadcasting for which...
Gorter, Rendt
Social scientist who obtained his PhD studying environmental democracy at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, where he continues to live and work.
Sorokina, Olga A.
Studied the Deap-Sea Lilies Crinoidea, Millecinida for her PhD in marine zoology and ecology at the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. The work was dedicated to their systematic ways of evolution and dissemination of the taxa over the World Ocean.
Benjamin, Craig
Associate Professor of History in the Frederik J. Meijer Honors College at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, USA. At GVSU Craig teaches Big History, world history, and East Asian history, to students at all levels, from first-year to post-graduate. Craig is a frequent guest presenter at conferences...
Tobias, Michael C.
Tobias is an ecologist, author, filmmaker, historian, explorer, anthropologist, educator and non-violence activist. His work encompasses ecological anthropology and aesthetics, the history of ideas, environmental psychology, comparative literature, philosophy and ethics, global biodiversity...
Grinin, Anton L.
Anton L. Grinin, PhD in Biological Sciences, is Senior Research Fellow of the International Center for Education and Social and Humanitarian Studies as well as leading Research of Volgograd Centre for Social Research. His main research interests include Big History, evolution,...
LePoire, David
Argonne National Laboratory
Baker, David
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Researcher and Tutor. PhD in Big History at Macquarie University in Sydney under David Christian. He now teaches Big History at the universities of Amsterdam, Eindhoven, and Rotterdam alongside Fred Spier and Esther Quaedackers. His research...