Socializing with Scientists presents the untold stories of immunologists, neuroscientists, environmental chemists, and more, recounting how their early life built their current life, and sharing what they do now to make the world a better place. And how do they define success, anyway? Listen to find out the surprising secrets of curious people.
https://socializingwithscientists.com/
Our music is called "Discussion," and was composed by Folk Acoustic.
Host and science writer Rachael Moeller Gorman has written hundreds of articles for magazines like Smithsonian, The Scientist, Men's Health and EatingWell, and has won several awards for her work, including four James Beard Foundation Journalism awards.
Desirée Plata, PhD, is an environmental chemist at MIT.
Lauren Osborne, MD, is a reproductive psychiatrist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. She wants to understand why mood disorders occur in women during and after pregnancy and has dedicated her career to improving perinatal and postnatal mental health.
Photo by Will Kirk, Johns Hopkins
Dr. Louis Bont is a world-renowned respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) researcher and pediatrician who heads the Department of Pediatrics at Wilhelmina Children's Hospital at University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands, and co-leads the non-profit ReSViNET, a foundation which seeks to make RSV less harmful all over the world.
X: @BontLouis
UMC Utrecht: https://research.umcutrecht.nl/researchers/bont/
Paleoecologist Michela Mariani, PhD, is an associate professor at the University of Nottingham in the UK. She's originally from Milan, Italy, and her research takes her to Australia, where she examines cores of mud full of ancient pollen pulled from beneath Tasmanian lakes. Her latest paper in Science determined that indigenous people removed the shrub layer from their forests, which prevented devastating wildfires from destroying their lands.
X: @MarianiMichaela
Bluesky: @michela-mariani.bsky.social
Soumya Acharya, MD, PhD, is the graduate program director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design.