Michael John Gorman
Science & Technology Expert
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 at MIT. Michael John was previously Founding Director of Biotopia a new museum of life sciences and environment in development in Munich, and University Professor in Life Sciences in Society at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. He was Founding Director of Science Gallery at Trinity College in Dublin, dedicated to igniting creativity and discovery where science and art collide. Prior to founding Science Gallery, Michael John was Lecturer in Science, Technology and Society at Stanford University and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard University, Stanford University and MIT. He has written books on topics ranging from Buckminster Fuller’s architecture to seventeenth century Flemish art and articles and reviews in journals including Nature, Science, Nature Medicine, and Leonardo. His recent books include The Scientific Counter-Revolution: The Jesuits and the Invention of Modern Science (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) and Idea Colliders: The Future of Science Museums (MIT Press in 2020).
