Michael John Gorman

Michael John Gorman is the Founding Director of BIOTOPIA, a new museum for life sciences and environment under development in Munich, and Professor for Life Sciences in Society at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. He previously founded Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin (www.sciencegallery.com) dedicated to sparking off creative collisions between art and science through exhibitions, festivals and events on themes ranging from immunology to robotic art, and Science Gallery International, pioneering a network of university-linked transdiscipilnary galleries in cities including London, Bengaluru, Venice, Melbourne and now also Rotterdam, Detroit and Atlanta. Michael John worked previously as Lecturer in Science, Technology and Society at Stanford University where his course on Deception: Perspectives from Science, Technology and Art, co-taught with mathematician and magician Persi Diaconis was described by the Stanford Report as "the coolest course on campus". Michael John is the author of several books including Buckminster Fuller: Designing for Mobility (Rizzoli-Skira: 2005) and numerous articles on the intersections between science, technology and the arts in journals including Nature and Leonardo. Michael John has a BA in Physics and Philosophy from Oxford University and a PhD in History from the European University Institute in Florence and has also held postdoctoral fellowships at MIT (Dibner Institute) and Harvard University.