About Ilan Gur
Ilan Gur is the founding CEO of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA).
Ilan has forged his career managing cutting-edge research and innovation for the benefit of society.
He previously founded Activate, a US-based non-profit which empowered scientists and engineers to bring groundbreaking research to market. Prior to this, Ilan established two science-based start-ups and served in the first generation of Programme Directors at ARPA-E.
Ilan obtained a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Sponsors
This year’s lecture is once again sponsored by Elsevier, and we are delighted to welcome Queen Mary University of London as a new sponsor. We are extremely grateful to them for their support.
As a global leader in information and analytics, Elsevier helps researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. We do this by facilitating insights and critical decision-making for customers across the global research and health ecosystems.
In everything we publish, we uphold the highest standards of quality and integrity. We bring that same rigor to our information analytics solutions for researchers, academic leaders, funders, R&D-intensive corporations, doctors, and nurses.
Elsevier is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that great ideas can and should come from anywhere. Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. Not just because it’s the right thing to do but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers. It is an approach that has brought results across the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.
