Michael John Gorman

Michael John Gorman is the Mark R. Epstein (Class of 1963) Director of the MIT Museum and Professor of the Practice of Science, Technology, and Society. His work connects science, culture and public engagement through museums and interdisciplinary exhibitions.

He was founding director of BIOTOPIA in Munich and held a chair in Life Sciences in Society at Ludwig-Maximilians-University. Earlier, he founded Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin and established Science Gallery International in 2012 to extend its encounters between science and art to audiences around the world.

Gorman has taught at Stanford and held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard, Stanford and MIT. His books include *The Scientific Counter-Revolution: The Jesuits and the Invention of Modern Science* and *Idea Colliders: The Future of Science Museums*, both published in 2020. His writing also explores subjects ranging from Buckminster Fuller's architecture to seventeenth-century science.