Futureproof With Jonathan Mccrea

Guests:Professor David Webb, Professorial Research Fellow at Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies at Aston University in the UKDr Shelley Brady of DCUDr Shane Bergin of UCD

Are we alone in the universe? Could there be other civilisations out there that we could possibly contact?In 1961, Astrophysicist Frank Drake tried to formulate an equation that could answer these questions.Today, we have finally reached a technological level that allows us to search for signs of life and technology on planets in distant star systems.So, “Is There Anybody Out There?”We’ll be asking that question on this very special episode of Futureproof...Guests:Sean Jordan - Associate Professor in Biogeochemistry and Astrobiology at Dublin City University @SeanFJProfessor Johanna Vos - Astrophysicist specialising in exoplanet atmospheres in Trinity College Dublin @TCD_physicsProfessor Lisa Kalteneger - Professor of Astronomy at Cornell and current Director of the Carl Sagan Institute @KalteneggerLisa

Guest: Dr Clare Cousins, Reader in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of St Andrews

Guests:Susan Kelleher of DCULaura Hayes of DIASTim Friede

Guest: Prof Cliona O’Farrelly, Chair in Comparative Immunology at TCD

Guests:Dr Shane Bergin, UCDProfessor Annie Curtis, RCSIDr Shelley Brady Postdoctoral Researcher at the Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics at DCU

Guest: Adam Kucharski

Guests:Dr Shane BerginDr Jessamyn FairfieldProfessor Anya Hurlbert

Guest: Don Ross, Experimental Economist and Philosopher of Science

Guests:Dr Lorina NaciDr Andrew Godfrey, Medical & Scientific Director of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service

Guest: Dr Bronagh Keane

Guests:Dr Shane BerginDr Ruth FreemanGlynn Tallon

Guest: Nikita Greenidge

Guests:Dr Laura HayesDr Shane BerginBrian Schmidt

Guest: Lisa Baik, Postdoctoral researcher with the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University

Guests:Dr Jessamyn Fairfield from the University of GalwayMedic and Immunologist Dr Lara DunganDr Sarah Williams, Assistant Professor of High Energy Physics at Cambridge University

Guest: Dr Daniel Jolley, Assistant Professor in Social Psychology at the University of Nottingham

Guests:Dr Ruth FreemanDr Lara DunganDr Giovanni Traverso, Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a Gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the US

Guest: Dr Chris MacDonald, Univeristy of Cambridge

Guests:Dr Laura HayesDr Jessamyn FairfieldJoe Roman, Biologist at the University of Vermont