Contributors
The Breakers
Meet the scientists who translate their research into accessible Breaks. Every Breaker is an active researcher from an academic or non-profit institution, sharing discoveries in their own words.
1,290 contributors worldwide
Deborah Z. Rosen
Science and Policy Manager for the EU Horizon 2020 CONSTRAIN project
Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Luca Zoccarato
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany
Maria Zimmermann-Kogadeeva
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Structural and Computational Biology Research Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Michael Zimmermann
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Structural and Computational Biology Research Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Jian Zhou
Postdoctoral Appointee
Argonne National Laboratory
Ying Zheng
Professor
Department of Bioengineering; Institute of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington
Boyang Zhao
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Brown University
Wenchan Zhao
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
Wei Zhang
Professor
Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Weiwei Zhang
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside
Linqi Zhang
Professor
Center for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine and Vanke School of Public Health, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Charlotte Zhang
Medical student
Guangzhou Regenerative medicine and Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, China
Marianna Zazhytska
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind, and Brain and Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA
Kyaw Zay Ya
PhD student
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Amro Zayed
Associate Professor
Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, Canada
Norhasnida Zawawi
Senior Lecturer
Department of Food Science, Faculty of Food Science and Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
Eduardo E. Zattara
Adjunct Researcher
INIBIOMA, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, CONICET, Bariloche, Argentina
Samantha Zarate
PhD student
Johns Hopkins University
Nora Zannoni
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Arslan Zaidi
PhD student
Department of Anthropology, PennState College of the Liberal Arts, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
David Zada
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The Faculty of Life Sciences and The Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Xiaoying Yu
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Christopher V. Young
Staff Scientist
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA
Rebecca Young
Research Associate
Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Bruce A. Young
Professor
Department of Anatomy, Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine, Missouri School of Dentistry and Oral Health, A.T. Still University, Kirksville, USA
Yusuke Yokota
Lecturer
Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Jie Yin
Professor
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Zeynep Yilmaz
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Woon-Hong Yeo
Professor
Georgia Institute of Technology
Lingling Ye
Professor
Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Geodynamics and Geohazards, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Keqiang Ye
Professor
Faculty of Life and Health Sciences, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Science, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Fangfang Yao
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Virginia
Hui Yang
PhD graduate
Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, USA
Stephanie M. Yan
PhD student
Johns Hopkins University
Shiki Yagai
Professor
Division of Advanced Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
Vijay Kumar Yadav
Principal Investigator
Columbia University
Yi Xu
Medical Doctor
Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou, China
Shengjin Xu
Principal Investigator
Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
Weizhen Xie
Postdoctoral Fellow
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, USA
Jianliang Xiao
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Vanessa Xavier
PhD student
Department of Cell Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Bert Wynands
PhD student
Human Movement Science and Health Technische Universität Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
Min Wu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Sihan Wu
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Ewan Wright
PhD student
UBC,University of British Columbia
Kenneth P. Wright
Professor
Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Addison V. Wright
PhD student
University of California, Berkeley, MCB
Hugh Woolfenden
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK

