Insight & Excite
Season 1
by Najeeb Akbar
Billy Van Der Laar is a software engineer based in Baltimore who works on developing new superconducting technology. In his free time he enjoys thinking about how adapting urban planning and transportation norms can help us all improve our lifestyles in a changing world.
Chris Esparza is an experimental nuclear physics graduate student with a focus on nuclear astrophysics. With the skills learned through nuclear physics, he hopes to transition to a role as a clinical medical physicist in order to make his contributions to the medical field.
Trever is currently in Denver and on his way to financial freedom. He plans to build a 'Real Estate Empire' and semi-retire in Eastern Europe. He wasn't born with money, he doesn't have secret knowledge, but he is ... on to something big!
Connor Aronoff is a graduate student at Texas Tech University studying theoretical physics. He hopes to study condensed matter as it may, one day, lead to the quantum computation revolution.
Alex Pan is a computational scientist at Ohio State University using bioinformatics analysis to help clinicians and primary investigators with their projects. He is currently working on learning more about models of resistance in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Jean Paul Pompeo is a designer, researcher, foodie, and farmer interested in incorporating passive technologies and methods into our lives to create more sustainable ways of living. Questions he would like to answer: How would one design a comfortable, fully passive house that requires no electricity? What are effective ways to encourage others to make more sustainable choices? Is pasta the most superior food?
Josh Bunn is an architectural designer and an aspiring storyteller.
Robert McKay is a graduate student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign studying theoretical physics in condensed matter systems.