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Glauco Lolli-Ghetti (29 April 1921 – 18 April 2006) was an Italian shipowner and sports executive. He is best known as the founder of the Scorpio Group, one of the world’s leading shipping conglomerates, and for twice serving as president of Genoa-based football club U.C. Sampdoria. Over a career spanning more than five decades, he expanded a family shipping business into a global enterprise and pioneered double-hull oil tanker design. He was referred to in the industry as the “Italian Onassis.”

Early life and education

Lolli-Ghetti was born on 29 April 1921 in Ferentino, in the Lazio region of central Italy. He graduated in pharmaceutical chemistry from the University of Genoa in 1944. He married Maria Amelia, the niece of prominent Genoese shipowner and senator Giovanni Battista Bibolini, through whom he entered the Bibolini family’s established shipping enterprise as administrative director.

Shipping career

Entry into the industry (1944–1964)

After joining the Bibolini group, Lolli-Ghetti rose steadily through the organisation. Following the death of Senator Bibolini in 1955, he established Carboflotta, a new shipping company that marked his first independent venture. In 1964, he founded a successor entity, Carbonavi, which further expanded the fleet under his direction.

Double-hull tankers and international recognition (1966–1972)

In 1966, Lolli-Ghetti commissioned the construction of the first ecologically designed double-hull oil tankers, a pioneering initiative in marine environmental safety that preceded widespread industry adoption by decades. In recognition of this contribution, he received the internationally recognised “Maritime Man of the Year” award in 1970.

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Robert Anthony Antonia (born 2 July 1943) is an Australian mechanical engineer and academic who is Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Newcastle.

His research has concerned turbulent flows, including surface-roughness effects, small-scale turbulence, measurement methods and large-scale organisation in shear flows. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2004. In 1977, he received the Edgeworth David Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales.

Early life and education

Antonia was born in Egypt on 2 July 1943. During the 1956 Suez Crisis, his family left Egypt and lived in Bayonne, France, before migrating to Australia in 1958. He later attended De La Salle College Ashfield in Sydney.

Antonia studied at the University of Sydney, where he earned a Bachelor of Engineering, a Master of Engineering Science and a PhD. R. E. Luxton was his doctoral adviser.

Career

After completing his PhD, Antonia spent a year as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London, working with Peter Bradshaw. He then returned to the University of Sydney as a lecturer and later became a senior lecturer. In 1976, he joined the University of Newcastle as Professor of Mechanical Engineering.

He is listed by the University of Newcastle as Emeritus Professor in its College of Engineering, Science and Environment.

Research

The Australian Academy of Science’s citation for Antonia’s election describes his early work on the response of turbulent flows to changes in surface roughness, his later work on small-scale turbulence and small-scale statistics, and his contributions to turbulence measurement and the study of large-scale organisation in shear flows. His University of Newcastle profile lists research on momentum and heat transport in shear flows, transport in the atmospheric surface layer, turbulent diffusion, small-scale turbulence, and the manipulation and control of turbulent flows.

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Ulrike Herzschuh is a German geoecologist and palaeoclimatologist. She leads the Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems section at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Potsdam, a position she has held since 2012.

Career

Herzschuh completed her doctorate at the Free University of Berlin in 2004. She then worked as a researcher at the University of Bergen in Norway before returning to Germany. In 2005 she was appointed junior professor of palaeoecology and palaeoclimatology at the University of Potsdam.

She has been elected as Germany’s representative on the international expert committees of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) and Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF).

Research

Herzschuh’s work examines how climate fluctuations over geological time have affected biodiversity, particularly in Arctic and high-mountain environments. She conducts fieldwork in Siberia, Antarctica, the Tibetan Plateau, and Alaska, collecting sediment cores from lakes and marine deposits. These cores contain fossil pollen, chironomid midges, stable isotopes, and biomarkers that allow reconstruction of past climates.

Her group has contributed to developing methods for extracting ancient DNA (aDNA) from lake sediments to track changes in species composition over millennia. They have also developed individual-based vegetation models incorporating plant functional traits.

In 2018 she received an ERC Consolidator Grant for the project Glacial Legacy (grant no. 772852), which examined whether present-day plant distributions in Arctic and subarctic regions still reflect the influence of the last glacial period.

Awards

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Stefan Pfister is a German paediatric oncologist and professor at the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University.

Career

Pfister studied medicine at the University of Hamburg and the University of Tübingen, where he completed his doctorate in 2002. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

He completed his clinical training in paediatrics at the university hospitals in Mannheim and Heidelberg, and at the DKFZ. In 2010, he completed his habilitation in paediatrics at Heidelberg University.

Since 2012, he has headed the Division of Paediatric Neurooncology at the DKFZ. He has held a professorship at the Medical Faculty Heidelberg since 2014.

In 2016, he initiated the founding of the Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ), the first centre in Germany to combine childhood cancer treatment and research under one roof.

Research

Pfister’s research focuses on the genetic and epigenetic characterisation of childhood brain tumours. His work contributed to the development of a methylation-based classification system for brain tumours, which the World Health Organization has adopted in its official tumour classifications.

He is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (elected 2020) and the European Molecular Biology Organization (elected 2022).

Awards

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Eike Kiltz is a German cryptographer and professor of computer science at Ruhr University Bochum.

Career

Kiltz studied mathematics at Ruhr University Bochum, where he completed his PhD in 2004. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, San Diego, before moving to the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam in 2005. In 2010, he accepted a professorship at Ruhr University Bochum.

From 2010 to 2014, he received funding through a Sofja Kovalevskaja Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 2013, he was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2013-CoG-615073-ERCC) by the European Research Council.

He is an editorial board member of the Journal of Cryptology (Springer) and a board member of the Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security.

Research

Kiltz’s research focuses on public-key cryptography, post-quantum cryptography, and complexity theory. He contributed to the development of CRYSTALS-Kyber and CRYSTALS-Dilithium, two cryptographic schemes that were selected by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as post-quantum cryptography standards in 2024. These standards are intended to resist attacks by future quantum computers.

Awards

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Philip Colic Treleaven (born 1950) is a British computer scientist and engineer.

Early life and education

Treleaven was born in 1950 in western England. He studied computer science at the University of Manchester, where he earned his PhD.

Career and research

Treleaven’s research has covered computer architecture, financial computing, regulation technology, and entrepreneurship.

His early work on dataflow computer architectures informed later developments in field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). His later research includes DNA-programmable biological microcomputers, and computation as a fundamental science.

He has advised on innovation programs including the European Commission ESPRIT programme, Japan’s Fifth Generation computer project, and initiatives in Korea, Singapore, and Thailand. He also chaired the Luxembourg Research Council (FNR) FinTech panel.

Treleaven founded the University College London (UCL) Financial Computing Research Group. His team developed one of the first insider dealing detection systems for the London Stock Exchange and early fraud detection systems. He co-developed algorithmic trading platforms in Europe and the Ki-Insurance underwriting platform. He directed the UK Doctoral Training Centre in Financial Computing, which graduated over 230 PhDs.

He worked with the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on technology for regulatory automation, including Tech Sprints and the Sandbox program, and is credited with introducing the term “RegTech”.

In 2000, Treleaven directed the UK National Sizing Survey (SizeUK), which used 3D body scanners to measure 11,000 UK adults for clothing size data. The survey reported a 30 cm increase in average women’s waist size over 20 years.

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