Mario Ettore Giardini has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says:
I am a biomedical engineer, and I design instruments for field medicine,to support healthcare in the remotest areas of the world. Hair has only little to do with my research, and this is why I need plenty of it.
Mario Ettore Giardini, Ph.D, LFHCfS
Lecturer in Digital Health
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Strathclyde
Glasgow, UK
Lincoln Carr has joined the Luxuriant Former Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says:
In graduate school I had luxuriant flowing hair. I foolishly accepted a post-doc in Paris where crazed mobs of Frenchmen chased me down and shaved me bald, shrieking, “Vive la France! Tu seras chauve, chien Américain!” While there, I also had a very bald baby. My hair has never grown back.
Lincoln D. Carr, Ph.D., LFHCfS
Professor, Humboldt Fellow, Honors Faculty Fellow
Department of Physics
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, Colorado, USA
Jeffrey Guterman has joined the Luxuriant Flowing, Former, or/and Facial Hair Club for Social Scientists (LFHCfSS). He says:
Jeffrey Guterman is a mental health counselor, educator, and author. He holds a Ph.D. in family therapy from Nova Southeastern University. He is author of the book, Mastering the Art of Solution-Focused Counseling, which was published by the American Counseling Association in 2006. A second edition of this book was published in 2013. In the 1980s, Guterman was influenced by rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) and received personal psychotherapy, training, and supervision in the model from its founder Albert Ellis. In the 1990s, Guterman developed a solution focused brief therapy model called solution-focused counseling. Solution-focused counseling is an integration of solution-focused principles and techniques, postmodern theories, and a strategic approach to eclecticism.
Jeffrey Guterman, Ph.D, LFFFHCfSS
Mental Health Counselor
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Brady Mackowiak has joined the Luxuriant Facial Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) and the Luxuriant Former Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says:
Mr. Mackowiak is an engineer in the Fuel Fabrication Department at Idaho National Laboratory where he works on application of fabrication process to uranium fuel systems. He has chosen to focus his hair growth entirely in the facial region where his beard is a source of numerous discussions among his colleagues. His luxuriant facial hair is (many feel) the primary reason his visage occupied the lede photograph in a New York Times article. Unfortunately the face shield and leather jacket (worn as personal protection equipment, not just a fashion statement) serve to obscure much of the beard’s magnificence.
Brady Mackowiak , LFHCfS
Fuel Fabrication Engineer
Idaho National Laboratory
Idaho, USA
Ben Pascoe has joined the Luxuriant Facial Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). Guillaume Méric, who nominated him, says:
Dr Ben Pascoe is a researcher in microbial ecology and genomics at the College of Medicine of Swansea University in Wales. The fluffiness, density, aspect, smell, soft texture and speed of growth of his beard is equalled only by few while envied by most. Every day that, in a moment of weakness, he decides to trim it or shave it off, a little je-ne-sais-quoi dies in the heart of his covetous but respectful entourage. This phenomenal physiological advantage gives Dr Pascoe a keratinistic gravitas which contributes to the greatness of his research, collaborative endeavours and general aura.
Ben Pascoe, Ph.D, DPhil, LFHCfS
Postdoctoral research assistant
Head of Sequencing (Swansea Genome Centre)
Swansea Centre Manager (MRC CLIMB Consortium)
Institute of Life Science
College of Medicine, Swansea University
Swansea, UK
D. Eric Aston has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says:
I am a colloid scientist, chemical engineer, and professor who pretends to be a physicist when I play with lasers for Raman spectroscopy in my microscopy lab. I teach thermodynamics and other stuff—more recently creative writing—and once donated my abundant locks for someone else to sport. I believe my hair has given me stories in a Jungian sense; if you know what that means, please inform me.
D. Eric Aston, Ph.D, LFHCfS
Professor & Interim Department Chair
Chemical & Materials Engineering
University of Idaho
Moscow, Idaho, USA
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Jennifer Verdolin has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). She says:
I am interested in the social and mating behavior of mammals (including humans). When I am not doing interesting research on lemurs, sea turtles, humans, or prairie dogs, I’m busy being a part time radio personality, author, and occasional movie star. Hair, its color, texture, and length can be an honest signal of mate quality- unless of course it is dyed or composed of extensions. The natural length, softness, and color of my hair has long fascinated many, from males on lek mating grounds (otherwise known as nightclubs) to strangers of either gender while I am out and about foraging in grocery stores. There is only one individual of my own species permitted to cut or otherwise alter my mane. Although grooming my locks can be tedious and arduous, the end result is well worth the 10% of my time budget.
Jennifer Verdolin, Ph.D., Ph.D, LFHCfS
Visiting Lecturer
Department of Evolutionary Anthropology
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina, USA
Dr. Anne A. Madden, the 2015 Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club (LFHCfS) Woman of the Year, is part of the team that made a beer-related breakthrough in the study and manipulation of yeast. Dr. Madden is pictured here (in a photo by Lauren Nichols), examining yeast cultures:
Dr. Madden will make a special appearance next week in the Twenty Fifth 1st Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. The ceremony will be webcast live.
North Carolina State University announced the beer breakthrough:
From the Lab Bench to the Beer Glass
When John Sheppard was asked to brew beer from wild yeast, he was skeptical. Humans, after all, have been brewing beer for millennia. If there were yeasts out there that could make a good pint, they would surely have been found years ago. But, it turns out, Sheppard proved himself wrong….
But Sheppard was willing to give it a shot, and so he reached out to [NC State biologist Robb] Dunn. The biologist, in turn, reached out to the people in his research group to see if they had any ideas. One of those researchers was Anne Madden.
Madden is a postdoctoral microbiologist affiliated with both Dunn’s lab at NC State and Noah Fierer’s lab at the University of Colorado. In her official capacity as a postdoc, she studies the microorganisms of the “built environment” – particularly, how insects and other arthropods introduce microorganisms to homes, workplaces and other buildings. She is, in other words, an expert on the microscopic organisms that live on insects…. [You can read the entire story on the NC State web site.]
Richard Rees, a longtime member of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS), has now gained membership also in the Luxuriant Facial Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says:
I have long been a member of the The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists, having joined in 2001-2003 (I am on the first membership page). Since I have been a member for so long, my profile is now out of date, and I would appreciate it if it could be updated. Here is a more recent picture, and my profile should be updated as follows:
I am now a full professor, not an assistant professor. My institution’s name is now Westfield State University (it got promoted too!) My department is now called the Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences. As you can tell from the new picture, I think I am also eligible to be a member of the Luxuriant Facial Hair Club for Scientists.
Richard Rees, Ph.D, LFHCfS
Professor
Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences
Westfield State University
Westfield, Massachusetts, USA
Oliver Vikbladh has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS), has now gained membership also in the Luxuriant Facial Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). Jan Zimmermann, who nominated him, says:
Oliver Vikbladh is an extraordinary creature, and his flowing hair inspires the entire Center for Neural Science at New York University.
Oliver Vikbladh, LFHCfS
Graduate student
Center for Neural Science
New York University
New York, New York, USA
Valerio Molinari has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says:
I am a Chemist working in Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Potsdam, Germany). My dream is to synthesize a new conditioner efficient for my hair — a project still not accomplished, as you can see.
Valerio Molinari, LFHCfS
Doctoral student in chemistry
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Potsdam, Germany
Ellen de Bruin has joined — indeed, become the first member of — the Luxuriant Flowing, Former, or Facial Hair Club for Science Journalists (LFFFHCfSJ), the newest sibling club of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). She says:
I am a science journalist at the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad, writing mainly about social sciences, human behavior, and weird things. Hair conditioner has changed my life, though not necessarily visibly so. When my first book Dutch Women Don’t Get Depressed came out in 2007, a columnist of The Independent on Sunday, a British newspaper, stated: ‘De Bruin is scruffy-looking with no hair style […] With respect, how many of us wish to be Dutch?’ Scruffy, that’s very sweet, but of course I do prefer the word ‘luxuriant’.
Ellen de Bruin, LFFFHCfSJ
Science Journalist
NRC Handelsblad
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Lucas Brouwers has joined the Luxuriant Flowing, Former, or Facial Hair Club for Science Journalists (LFFFHCfSJ), the newest sibling club of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says:
I am a science writer from the Netherlands, specialized in biology and evolution. Once, I was the proud owner of a beard. Jealous friends lured me into a barber shop under the pretense that we would visit a razor museum. It was over in seconds. For the first time in years, I felt the tingling chill of fresh air flowing around my chin. The beard grew back. Naturally.
Lucas Brouwers, LFFFHCfSJ
Science Journalist
NRC Handelsblad
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
David Brooks has joined the Luxuriant Flowing, Former, or Facial Hair Club for Science Journalists (LFFFHCfSJ), the newest sibling club of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says:
This photo of me from the late 1970s demonstrates both unkempt luxuriant flowing hair (all white American males under age 25 in the 1970s had ugly unkempt hair – it was a rule) and excellent dietary habits.
David Brooks, LFFFHCfSJ
Science Journalist
Concord (NH) Monitor, GraniteGeek.org
Concord, New Hampshire, USA
Melanie During has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). She says:
I am a Vertebrate Paleontologist, and currently still a masters student, I am also an assistant in Big History (the field that covers everything) and a volunteer preparator at the Natural History Museum in Leiden. For the past 5 years I have been almost consistently pink-haired, and my ambitions are not just being a paleontologist, but making scientific documentaries as well.
Melanie A.D. During, LFHCfS
Masters student in Vertebrate Paleontology
Naturalis — Natural History Museum, Leiden
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Andrew Sayer has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says:
I am a physicist working on atmospheric remote sensing. The long hair certainly helps in my research, which is basically examining things from a distance.
Andrew Sayer, Ph.D, LFHCfS
Research scientist
NASA Goddard
Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Nastasia Okulova has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). She says:
I recently started my Ph.D studies in the field of micro and nanotechnologies working with polymers and surface structures. It is a pity that all this luxurious flowing hair has to be kept underneath the cleanroom suit while working in the lab every day.
Nastasia Okulova, LFHCfS
Ph.D student
Technical University of Denmark
Copenhagen, Denmark
Steve Trim has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says:
I’m a molecular biologist and drug discovery scientist who founded Venomtech to deliver the next generation of biological therapeutics. My long flowing hair is a key part of who I am, and is much better than a business card for leaving a good impression.
Steve Trim, BSc, MRSB, LFHCfS
Managing Director
Venomtech limited
Sandwich, Kent, UK
David Plonka has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says:
I am a research scientist and Internet researcher. My luxuriant flowing hair is as much the result of my hair-cutter leaving the employ of my barber shop many years ago (and my having not patronized any such establishment since) as it is the key element in an extended social experiment to determine what it takes for a scientist to be most often be referred to as “dude.” As such, it has most certainly improved my life.
David Plonka, Ph.D, LFHCfS
Research Scientist
Akamai Technologies
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Tad Pfeffer has joined the Luxuriant Facial Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says:
I have spent my ~40-year research career studying the mechanics of glaciers and ice sheets and their role in sea level change. For much of that time, I used to preface lectures and conference presentations with the observation that there is something intrinsically funny about being paid to run around on glaciers and think about how they work. Sea level rise isn’t as funny as it used to be, but the principle still stands. My membership in the LFHCfS is simply consistent with this philosophy and reinforces the long and time-honored tradition of scientists getting away with nonsense generally. (PS The headshot on my Jefferson Fellows page is an old one, and my beard there is nothing to write home to Mom about. Here, instead, is a Getty photo of me taken by Natalie Cass at the Sundance Film Festival.)
W.T. Pfeffer, Ph.D, LFHCfS
Professor, INSTAAR and
Dept. of Civil, Environmental, Architectural Engineering
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, Colorado, USA
