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2015 in Hair (Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™)

December 27, 2015, 11:13 am
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Good news for scientists and people who appreciate hair – The 2015 Members Gallery of the Luxurious Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) and its conjoined clubs has been released.

4 of the members inducted in 2015 into Improbable Research's LFHCfS,

D. Eric Aston, N. Okulova, Jimmy, and J. Verdolin are among the 2015 new members of the LFHCfS

Individual members are announced as they are inducted throughout the year, in the Improbable Blog (Hair Club section), and as each year closes they are collected into an annual gallery in the hair clubs’ website.

State of The Hair Clubs:
2015 was a good year for the clubs, with 23 new members from 6 countries, for a grand total of 539 members – unless someone else joins between now and New Year’s Day.

2015 also saw the number of these united hair clubs grow from 3 to 5 clubs. The complete list is now:

  • The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS)
    For scientists who have, or believe they have, luxuriant flowing hair
  • The Luxuriant Former Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS)
    For scientists who have a luxuriant head of former hair
  • The Luxuriant Facial Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS)
    For scientists who have luxuriant flowing facial hair
  • The Luxuriant Flowing, Former, or Facial Hair Club for Social Scientists™ (LFFFHCfSS)
    For social scientists who have luxuriant flowing facial hair
  • The Luxuriant Flowing, Former, or Facial Hair Club for Science Journalists™ (LFFFHCfSJ)
    For science journalists who have luxuriant flowing facial hair

Woman and Man of The Year:
Early in 2016 we will announce the hair clubs’ Woman and Man of the Year!

Suggest a Member:
Please let us know if you believe that you or someone you know qualifies to be in one (or more) of these clubs – or someone who deserves to be an Historical Honorary member.

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Luxuriant Hair Club for Scientists™ names 2016 Woman & Man of the Year

January 12, 2016, 10:44 am
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The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) proudly announces its Woman and Man Of The Year for 2016. The two scientists are, respectively, a Danish researcher who studies polymer micro and nano engineering, and a Scottish researcher for NASA who studies airborne particles in earth’s atmosphere.

2016 LFHCfS Woman and Man of the Year, Nastasia Okulova and Andrew Sayer

Here is thrilling detail about each of them.

Woman of the Year: Ms. Nastasia Okulova, LFHCfS

Nastasia Okulova, LFHCfS Woman of the Year 2016

Nastasia Okulova, LFHCfS (photo by Bjarne Sørensen)

Ms. Okulova is a Ph.D student working on micro and nano technology and engineering methods based on a polymer materials platform, at the Technical University of Denmark. Her collaboration with Danish company, Danapak Flexibles A/S aims to implement functional nano structures into the surface of the packaging foils. Applications of this range from self-cleaning and anti-icing surfaces for trains and windmills (which would save a lot of energy), to preventing yoghurt from sticking to its lid.

When asked about her hair, Ms. Okulova said:

“Curly hair is like science, you never know what to expect of it. It is in a state of a superposition between being easy and hard to work with. From time to time you can wake up with a nice-looking hair. You’d think that the hair cells are dead, but I suspect that my hair has a life of its own.”

Man of the Year: Dr. Andrew Sayer, LFHCfS

Andrew Sayer, LFHCfS Man of the Year, 2016

Andrew Sayer, LFHCfS

Dr. Sayer is a physicist working on Atmospheric Remote Sensing at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, USA, studying atmospheric aerosols around the world.

Much of his work focuses on finding the most effective ways of using satellite instruments to observe aerosols. You can see a video of him talking about this research, below, courtesy of the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.

Dr. Sayer received his Ph.D at the University of Oxford, UK.
His papers and publications include: “Aerosol remote sensing using AATSR“, “Satellite-Based Spatiotemporal Trends in PM2.5 Concentrations: China, 2004–2013“, and “Implications of MODIS bow-tie distortion on aerosol optical depth retrievals, and techniques for mitigation.“

When asked about hair care, he said:

“I was initially sceptical but, after a lot of gentle prodding from my girlfriend, I started using conditioner when washing my hair. The results of my several-year scientific experiment into this have revealed that it really is better than using shampoo alone.”

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Michael Scheid joins the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS)

January 26, 2016, 8:13 am
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Michael Scheid has joined the Luxuriant Facial Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says:

I am a PhD student in neuroscience at Northwestern University studying neurophysiology using biofeedback in monkeys. I stopped cutting my hair when I began working on my thesis to save time and money, and now, my only regret in life is all the time and money I spent not growing out long luscious luxurious flowing hair earlier.

Michael Scheid, LFHCfS
PhD student in neuroscience
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Evanston, Illinois, USA

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Mike Coffey joins the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS)

February 2, 2016, 6:14 am
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Mike Coffey has joined the Luxuriant Facial Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) and the Luxuriant Facial Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says:

I am a lecturer in analytical chemistry at Nottingham Trent University, U.K. I last went to a barber at the age of 14; since then occasional trims remain times of tension in my marriage when my wife insists very hard. I grew my beard when my daughters started going through the “You are SO embarrassing” phase, just to prove a point. I wish to join before I need to apply for the “Luxuriant Former Hair” instead.

Mike Coffey, Ph.D, LFHCfS
Lecturer (Analytical Chemistry)
Chemistry & Forensics
Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham, UK

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Thorsten Altenkirch joins Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS)

March 3, 2016, 8:52 am
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Robert Eklund joins Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS)

April 30, 2016, 7:48 am
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Robert Eklund has joined the Luxuriant Facial Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) and the Luxuriant Facial Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says:

Although a speech technologist by trade (I created the first commercial speech recognizer for Swedish, the first concatenative speech synthesizer and also worked on one of the biggest speech-to-speech translation projects ever; book on Cambridge University Press), since 2009 I have studied, and published extensively on cheetah purring, lion roaring, cheetah vocalizations. My friend, and recent Ig Nobel Prize winner, Elisabeth Oberzaucher, recommended me to apply for a membership in your illustrious club. These photos are by my girlfriend, Miriam Oldenburg, who does have long hair but is a musician (as I am, too), but alas not a scientist.

Robert Eklund, Ph.D, LFHCfS
Associate Professor of Computational Linguistics
University Lecturer in Language, Culture and Phonetics
Linköping University
Linköping, Sweden

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Zimbali_RobertEklund_PhotoBy_MiriamOldenburg

Some of Professor Eklund’s work was featured in the special Cats issue of the Annals of Improbable Research.

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Jake Eccles joins Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS)

May 15, 2016, 3:43 pm
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Jake Eccles has joined the Luxuriant Facial Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says:

I hope that all scientists are driven not only to better understand our world, but also by a desire to improve the lives of its occupants. Certainly, research demonstrates incredible potential to contribute to such far-reaching goals, and yet I am struck by the degree of internal hostility to which scientific communities are prone. If we, in our profession, truly possess such noble aspirations, these ought be expressed regularly through our relationships to colleagues. Thus, my hair represents an appeal to all seekers of truth and beauty: let your good will toward fellow scientists ever be luxuriant and flowing!

Jake Eccles, LFHCfS
MD/PhD (MSTP) Candidate
Dept of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

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Mary Glesner joins Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS)

July 5, 2016, 6:30 am
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Mary Glesner has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). She says:

As my years in graduate school mounted and I found myself poor and without “free time”, I found that a trip to the salon got cut out of the schedule and led to my lengthening hair. With hopes of defending, I wondered how long my hair would grow until I graduated. The result? A head of luxuriant flowing hair and one PhD! Now, I spend my days thinking about carpet…I suppose frieze is the luxuriant flowing carpet among floorcoverings.

Mary Glesner, Ph.D, LFHCfS
R&D Chemist
INVISTA
Camden, South Carolina,USA

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Katy Croff Bell joins Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS)

July 16, 2016, 6:35 am
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Katy Croff Bell has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). She says:

I believe that there is a linear relationship between my hair length and scientific prowess. I have had luxuriant flowing hair since 1991, when I won 2nd place at the Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair, thus launching my scientific career. I am now an oceanographer and find that the best place for my hair to enjoy its natural state is at sea, in particular in the seat of the crane where it can flow luxuriantly.

Kay Croff Bell, Ph.D, LFHCfS
VP, Exploration & Research
Ocean Exploration Trust
Old Lyme, Connecticut, USA

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Ragnhild Bjørknes joins The Luxuriant Flowing, Former, or Facial Hair Club for Social Scientists (LFFFHCfSS)

August 23, 2016, 7:05 am
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Ragnhild Bjørknes has joined The Luxuriant Flowing, Former, or Facial Hair Club for Social Scientists (LFFFHCfSS). Ida Marie Bjørknes, who nominated her, says:

She is an associate professor at the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Bergen in Norway, and more importantly – she has great hair! I am her sister and I instantly thought that she belongs in this luxurious club when I first heard about it at the Ig Nobel Prize show at the University of Oslo, where I work.

Sadly, I cannot nominate myself since I am not a researcher, and also because of my bleached and broken hair. My sister on the other hand has long, flowing, natural chocolate brown, beautiful hair, as you can see in the picture.

Ragnhild Bjørknes, Ph.D, LFFFHCfSS
Professor, Faculty of Psychology
University of Bergen
Bergen, Norway

Solstrand, Norway 20141104: Samling på Solstrand. Foto: Paul S. Amundsen

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Keith Wampler joins Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS)

October 4, 2016, 8:02 am
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Keith Wampler has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says, not tersely:

My hair while also beautifully blond, grows insanely fast.  I have have grown it out to about this length three times in the last 15 years and the most recent growth is only about three years old. I have never spent more than $5 on shampoo and I only get it trimmed once a year.  My five year old’s friends all want to touch my “Elsa” hair when I drop her off at kindergarten. I did a Ph.D. with Dick Schrock at MIT from 2005-2010 during which time he was co-awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of the olefin metathesis method in organic synthesis. After the prize we made a new generation of catalysts that I am now using to literally save the world.  After MIT, I decided that I wanted to be a process chemist and take these catalysts which were nothing more than a lab oddity and use them on the metric ton scale and I did that. My first start-up is/was called Elevance Renewable Sciences and there we used my catalysts and some related, more industrially relevant catalysts from one of the other awardees of that Nobel prize to transform cooking oils into chemicals. From there I some how convinced a company in Santa Monica, California to move me out here so I could start smoking weed and going to the beach, which has been pretty awesome.

Keith Wampler, Ph.D, LFHCfS
Senior Scientist
Provivi, Inc.
Santa Monica, California, USA

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Jason Rasgon joins the Luxuriant Facial Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS)

October 6, 2016, 6:49 pm
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Jason Rasgon has joined the Luxuriant Facial Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS), a sibling club of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says:

I grew a beard in graduate school during fieldwork in Peru and have been too lazy ever since to shave it off. I shampoo it with whatever I happen to be using on my head and trim it every three months when I cut my hair whether it needs it or not. Possessing a beard like mine is a sign of obvious productivity because I can’t be bothered to spend even 5 extra minutes a day to keep it minimally kempt. I’d grow my hair out to join the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ but I’m going bald on top, and it would make me look like a degenerate.

Jason L. Rasgon, Ph.D, LFHCfS
Associate Professor of Disease Epidemiology
Department of Entomology,
The Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, and the
Huck Institutes of The Life Sciences
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA, USA

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Sally Applin joins the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS)

October 7, 2016, 11:18 am
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Sally Applin has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). She says:

I am an anthropologist who examines autonomous vehicles, robots, drones, retail scripts and processes, drones, the IoT, etc. in the context of preserving human agency. My dissertation focused on small independent fringe new technology makers in Silicon Valley, what they are making, and most critically, how the adoption of the outcomes of their efforts impact society and culture locally, and/or globally. During this process, I grew my hair. This photo shows research, write-up, and defense hair growth. Remarkably, it did not turn entirely grey during this process.

Sally Applin, LFHCfS
Doctoral Candidate (2016 expected)
School of Anthropology and Conservation
University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

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Charles Hoffman joins Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS)

October 10, 2016, 4:31 pm
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Charles Hoffman has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says, not tersely:

I am a molecular geneticist who uses the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe to study cyclic nucleotide signaling. I am so focused on my research that I rarely notice how long my hair has grown. Every year or two, my daughter insists on cutting it so that it does not reach my waste.  I have come to see my hair as part of my “brand”, otherwise I’d be just another short Jewish yeast geneticist.

Charles Hoffman, Ph.D, LFHCfS
Professor of Biology
Boston College
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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Eleni Pinnow joins The Luxuriant Flowing, Former, or Facial Hair Club for Social Scientists (LFFFHCfSS)

October 20, 2016, 2:09 pm
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Eleni Pinnow has joined The Luxuriant Flowing, Former, or Facial Hair Club for Social Scientists (LFFFHCfSS). She says:

This is a picture of me kissing a redwood tree. I am a Cognitive Psychologist and I study how people process spoken language; mostly, though, I mentor undergraduate research and try to instill the job of the scientific process in my students. I started growing my hair out after tenure because I needed a new challenge. I love my long untamed hair (several students remarked on its similarity to Ms. Frizzle from the Magic School bus).

Eleni Pinnow, Ph.D, LFFFHCfSS
Associate Professor, Psychology
University of Wisconsin, Superior
Superior, Wisconsin, USA

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2016 in Hair (Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™)

December 27, 2016, 11:42 am
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Here at close of 2016 The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS), and it’s sibling clubs, have collected the year’s new members into its 2016 Members Gallery.

Some of 2016's new members to the LFHCfS

K. Bell, M. Coffey, M. Glesner, and K. Wampler are among the 2016 members of the LFHCfS

Individual members are first announced as they are inducted throughout the year, in the Improbable Blog’s Hair Club section (with one exception this year**), and then collected into an annual gallery in the hair clubs’ website each December.

State of The Hair Clubs:
In 2016 the clubs gained 14 new members from 4 countries, for a grand total of 553 members – unless someone else joins between now and New Year’s Day.

Woman and Man of The Year:
In January we will announce the hair clubs’ 2017 Woman and Man of the Year!  (Meanwhile, you can still read about the 2016 Woman and Man of the Year.)

Nominate a Member:
Do you believe that you or someone you know qualifies to be in The Luxuriant Flowing (or Former, or Facial) Hair Club for Scientists? Or is there someone who deserves to be an Historical Honorary member?

BONUS: “Mutations in Three Genes Encoding Proteins Involved in Hair Shaft Formation Cause Uncombable Hair Syndrome” (The American Journal of Human Genetics. December, 2016). This condition is also known as, “cheveux incoiffables” and as “pili trianguli et canaliculi”.

** The one exception to 2016 members appearing first in the Improbable Blog is Andreas Carlson, who was offered membership during the March 2016 Ig Tour of Norway, Denmark, Sweden, & the UK. In November 2016 he confirmed that he wanted membership in The Luxuriant Former Hair Club for Scientists.
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Hank Rawlins joins the Luxuriant Facial Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS)

December 28, 2016, 7:54 pm
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Hank Rawlins has joined the Luxuriant Facial Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS), a sibling club of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says:

I am a metallurgical engineer and Technical Director of my own company. Most of my research is for the upstream oil and gas industry. My original goal was to grow a flowing mane, but after a sordid incident at a Billy Squier concert in the mullet stage I cropped my locks. The switch to hirsute chin started with no shave November which kept going year round. On a recent trip to Dubai random people asked to take photos of my beard. It seems that only muftis and ISIS fighters grow decent beards and I didn’t appear to fit either category.

Hank Rawlins, Ph.D, P.E., LFHCfS
Technical Director
eProcess Technologies
Butte, Montana, USA

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Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ announces when it will announce it’s 2017 Woman & Man of the Year

March 15, 2017, 12:23 pm
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The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) proudly announced its 2017 Man Of The Year back in January. Now it proudly announces WHEN it will announce the 2017 Woman of the Year.

2017 MAN of The Year – an Experimental Physicist at Case Western Reserve University, researching cosmic rays – was announced on Friday, January 13th from the stage at Arisia. His name is Prof. Corbin Covault.
(Learn more about Man-of-The-Year Corbin Covault).

2017 WOMAN of The Year will be announced on March 24th at the University of Oslo Ig event (4:00pm start time). She will be there to display her luxurious flowing hair, and to make any remarks she wishes to make about her research, her hair, and what she thinks of the Woman of the Year title.

LFHCfS 2017 Man and Woman of the Year (Woman To be announced March 24th)

Only The 5th Time Awarded
The Woman and Man of the Year titles have each been given only 4 times before – in 2002/3, 204/5, 2015, and 2016. Details on all past honorees are available in the LFHCfS website.

Scientists with luxuriant hair have been with us for millennia. Find more details on club members, on the Historical Honorary Members, and on how to become a member yourself, all in the LFHCfS website.

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Nicholas H. Wolfinger joins Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Social Scientists

April 14, 2017, 1:20 pm
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Nicholas H. Wolfinger has joined the The Luxuriant Flowing, Former, or Facial Hair Club for Social Scientists™ (LFFFHCfSS), a sibling club of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says:

I view my hair in the spirit of Samson of the Old Testament: If I cut my hair, I lose my writing prowess.

Nicholas H. Wolfinger, Ph.D, LFFFHCfSS
Professor, Department of Family and Consumer Studies
Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

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Mikko Kivelä joins the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS)

June 26, 2017, 1:22 pm
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Mikko Kivelä has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). Ulrike Werner, who nominated him, says:

Mikko is a network scientist and Assistant Professor in complex systems. He has the most luxurious and flowing hair of any scientist I know. Maybe his hair is the visual representation of the networks he researches, especially when not brushed and full of knots (or nodes). Like his hair, he will also eventually untangle the science of complex networks.

Mikko Kivelä, Ph.D, LFHCfS
Assistant Professor
Aalto University
Department of Computer Science
Aalto, Finland

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