We would like to thank here all those involved, with particular attention to:

• The Fondation pour Genève as main strategic partner of the Science Breakthrough Radar.
• GESDA’s Founders and Public Contributors: the Swiss Confederation, the Republic and Canton of Geneva, the City of Geneva.

In particular we acknowledge the leadership of GESDA's Academic Forum chaired by:

The GESDA Diplomacy Forum, with the outgoing Chair:

Alexandre Fasel

Ambassador, Special Representative for Science Diplomacy in GenevaSwiss Confederation

The GESDA Citizen Forum chaired by:

And the members of the Scientific Advisory Board

Sir Peter Gluckman

2014-2021 Foundation Chair of the Advisory Group of the International Network of Government Science Advice (INGSA)President International Science Council

Michel Mayor

Representative of the Fondation pour Genève, Professor Emeritus and 2019 Physics Nobel Prize LaureateUniversity of Geneva

Marie-Laure Salles

DirectorGraduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Michael Schaepman

PresidentUniversity of Zurich

The Project Team:

Martin Müller

Executive Director Science AnticipationGESDA

Michael Brooks

Editorial

Sumit Paul-Choudhury

FounderAlternity

Markus Schilter

Sophie Gilbert

Program LeadGESDA

Scott David

Innovation DirectorShapeable

Adrian Shawcross

Creative DirectorShapeable

Travis Hensgen

Technical DirectorShapeable

Karmen King

Content ProducerShapeable

Jo Rugman

ArtworkShapeable

We extend our gratitude to their team members and colleagues.

And most importantly, we would particularly like to thank the commitment of the experts and contributors to the different parts of the report.

GESDA would like to gratefully acknowledge the contributions of the following individuals

For the Trends section, the authors of the breakthrough briefs and invited contributions:

Emmanuel Abbé

ProfessorforMathematical Data ScienceEPFL

Matthias Troyer

Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice-PresidentMicrosoft

Johannes Schemmel

Head of the ASIC Laboratory and the Electronic Vision(s) GroupHeidelberg University

Lena Smirnova

Assistant ProfessorJohns Hopkins University

Ángel Goñi-Moreno

Head of the Biocomputation LabTechnical University of Madrid (UPM)

Charles Roques-Carmes

Visiting Scientist, Research Laboratory of ElectronicsMassachusetts Institute of Technology

Alexander Ilic

Executive Director and Co-FounderETH AI Center

Geoff Mulgan

Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social InnovationUniversity College London

Pushmeet Kohli

Head of ResearchDeepMind

Sarah Kenderdine

Professor of Digital MuseologyEPFL

Chiara Bartolozzi

Head of Event-Driven Perception for Robotics GroupItalian Institute for Technology

Andreas Fickers

DirectorLuxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History

Jaimie Henderson

ProfessorStanford University

Robin Lovell-Badge

Principal Group LeaderFrancis Crick Institute

Samira Kiani

Co-FounderSafeGen Therapeutics

Vera Gorbunova

Co-directorRochester Aging Research Center

Brian Kennedy

Distinguished Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of MedicineNational University of Singapore

Itzhak Fried

Professor UCLA

Alysson Muotri

ProfessorUniversity of California, San Diego

Simon P. Hoerstrup

Founding Co-DirectorWyss Zurich

David Nutt

Edmond J. Safra Professor of NeuropsychopharmacologyImperial College London

Eduardo Schenberg

Founder / PresidentPhaneros Insitute

Matthew Green

Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering / Director of the Center for Negative Carbon EmissionsArizona State University

Gavin Schmidt

Director Goddard Institute for Space StudiesNASA

Ralph Graichen

Director of Food and Nutrition and Consumer Care / Associate ProfessorAgency for Science Technology and Research

Adriana Marais

DirectorFoundation for Space Development Africa

Robert Blasiak

ResearcherStockholm Resilience Centre

Govindasamy Bala

Professor at the Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic SciencesIndian Institute of Science

Wanda Markotter

Director of the Centre for Viral Zoonoses, Professor, NRF-DSI South Africa Research ChairUniversity of Pretoria

Alexander Proelss

Chair in the International Law of the Sea and International Environmental Law, Public International Law and Public LawUniversity of Hamburg

Leah Cowen

Professor Department of Molecular GeneticsUniversity of Toronto

Joseph Heitman

Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and MicrobiologyDuke University

Michael Ambuhl

Professor at the Chair of Negotiation and Conflict ManagementETHZ

Nora Meier

Managing Director, ETH Zurich Swiss School of Public GovernanceETHZ

Nicolas Levrat

Professor and Director of the Global Studies InstituteUniversity of Geneva

Didier Wernli

Senior Researcher/LecturerUniversity of Geneva

Pierre-Bruno Ruffini

Professor at the Faculty of International AffairsUniversity of Le Havre-Normandie

Sirkka Heinonen

ProfessorFinland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku

Eileen Donahoe

Executive Director, Global Digital Policy Incubator, Cyber Policy CenterStanford University

Mina Cikakra

Professor of Psychology / Director of the Intergroup Neuroscience LabHarvard University

Dirk Helbing

Professor of Computational Social ScienceETHZ

Amy Ogan

Thomas and Lydia Moran Associate Professor of Learning ScienceCarnegie-Mellon University

Jean-Pierre Danthine

Executive DirectorE4S

Betül Kaçar

Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Wisconsin

Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

Associate Professor of Chemistry Scripps Research

Bridget Baumgartner

Director of R&DRevive & Restore

Andrew Hessel

Global ExpertUniversity of Ottawa

Herman Cappelen

Chair Professor of PhilosophyUniversity of Hong Kong

Lily Eva Frank

Assistant Professor of Philosophy and EthicsTechnical University of Eindhoven

Emma Ruttkamp-bloem

Professor and head of the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of HumanitiesUniversity of Pretoria

Jean-Marie Guéhenno

Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of Practice in International and Public Affairs; Director of SIPA’s Kent Global Leadership Program on Conflict Resolution; Director of International Conflict Resolution SpecializationColumbia University

Thomas Greminger

DirectorGeneva Center for Security Policy

Monika Plozza

Research AssociateUniversity of Lucerne

Gérard Escher

Senior Advisor to the BoardGESDA

The 848 members of the global scientific community that contributed via survey, workshops and interviews.

For the Actions & Debates section, The Editor of the Pulse of Society:

Actions & Debates

The advances we cover in the Radar are reshaping, or will reshape, how we see ourselves as human beings, the way we interact with each other and our relation to the environment – and that means their applications, potential and implications are discussed broadly.

Mamokgethi Phakeng

Vice-ChancellorUniversity of Cape Town

For the Opportunities section:

Opportunities

The GESDA Science Breakthrough Radar presents an overview of some of the world’s most anticipated scientific disruptions and how the world’s citizens are discussing, perceiving and acting in response to them. These breakthroughs and the related discussions contribute to our evolving understanding of what makes us human and how we relate to each other and to our ecosystem. GESDA was developed to anticipate those future breakthroughs and their impacts. The key question now is what can and should be done about it.

Alexandre Fasel

Ambassador, Special Representative for Science Diplomacy in GenevaSwiss Confederation

Marieke Hood

Executive Director Impact TranslatorGESDA