Science Advisory Board

The Microsoft Science Advisory Board (SAB) was established as part of Microsoft’s commitment to improve scientific computation, strengthen public/private partnerships, drive interoperability and enhance Microsoft product development. The board was selected to create a geobalanced set of members with extensive and distinguished accomplishments in broad array of scientific disciplines.

Professor, Presidential Chair in Information Studies
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States

Scientific data, information technology policy, scholarly communication

Dr. Christine L. Borgman is Presidential Chair in Information Studies at UCLA and a co-principal investigator for the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS). Her primary research interests include the management of scientific data and the changing nature of scholarship in the digital age. Dr. Borgman has authored more than 150 publications in the fields of information studies, computer science, and communication.

Associate Vice President for Research
Regents' Professor of Meteorology and Weathernews Chair
University of Oklahoma
United States

Thunderstorm dynamics, data assimilation and numerical prediction, meteorology

Dr. Droegemeier co-founded the NSF Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS) and the NSF Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA). He directs the NSF Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery (LEAD) grant, and is a member of the National Science Board. He also directs the Sasaki Institute, which works in the shared interest of the research enterprise to build collaborative programs among academia, industry and government. Dr. Droegemeier’s research interests lie in thunderstorm dynamics and predictability, data assimilation, massively parallel computing, grid and Web service environments, and aviation weather.

Principal Investigator, Sanger Institute
United Kingdom

Genetics

Dr. Richard Durbin, a founding member of Europe's largest genomics institute, is distinguished for his contribution to computational biology. In particular, he played a leading role in establishing the new field of bioinformatics, enabling the handling of biological data on an unprecedented scale. Dr. Durbin is a Fellow of The Royal Society in the United Kingdom.

Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information
United States

Computer science, digital preservation

Dr. Clifford Lynch leads the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), focusing on the use of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity. He serves on the National Digital Preservation Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress and the National Research Council's committee on digital archiving.

President, Indian National Science Academy and R&D Management
Republic of India

Polymer science and engineering

Dr. Mashelkar is President of The Indian National Science Academy and President of the Global Research Alliance, with 60,000 members from five continents. He is a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of The Royal Society. 26 universities have honored him with honorary doctorates. Dr. Mashelkar has contributed extensively to the transformation of the Indian Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, one of the world's largest publicly-funded R&D institutions.

Distinguished Computer Scientist
United States

Scientific computing; high-performance computing; scalable infrastructure; distributed, grid and networked computing.

Dr. Paul Messina is a computational scientist whose career has focused on computing environments for scientific computing, including grid computing and advanced computer architectures, especially their application to large-scale computations in science and engineering. Previously Dr. Messina held senior positions at California Institute of Technology and Argonne National Laboratory. He was a Senior Advisor to the Director of CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), the Principal Investigator for the Teragrid and the National Virtual Observatory projects, and Chief Architect for the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI), established by the National Science Foundation and led by the University of California, San Diego.

Professor, Scuola Normale Superiore
Italy

Materials science

Dr. Parrinello is known for his many technical innovations in the field of atomistic simulations and for a wealth of interdisciplinary applications ranging from materials science to chemistry and biology. He has authored and /or edited more than 300 research papers, review articles and books. Dr. Parrinello is a member of Germany’s Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, The British Royal Society and Italy’s Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.

Professor, Tsinghua University
People's Republic of China

Physics

Dr. Chen Ning Yang, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957, is a prominent physicist best known for his research in statistical mechanics and particle physics. He is a prolific author; his numerous articles appear in The Physical Review, Reviews of Modern Physics, and the Chinese Journal of Physics. Dr. Yang was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Academia Sinica, and honored with the Albert Einstein Commemorative Award as well as an honorary doctorate from Princeton University.

Professor and Research Dean, University of São Paulo
Brazil

Molecular biology, genetics

Dr. Mayana Zatz, Professor and Research Dean at the University of São Paulo, focuses her interests on molecular biology, genetics and stem cell research. She has authored almost 300 research papers, which have been cited more than 5000 times. Dr. Zatz founded the Brazilian Association of Muscular Dystrophy (ABDIM), and is currently a member of the International Human Genome Organization (HUGO), the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, and the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).