Category: LFHCfS (Hair Clubs)

Jake Eccles has joined the Luxuriant Flowing 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 […]

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 […]

Thorsten Altenkirch has joined the Luxuriant Facial Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) and the Luxuriant Facial Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says: This is a photo of my work outfit. The hammer is the hammer of science. THORsten Altenkirch, Ph.D, LFHCfS Reader, School of Computer Science Nottingham University Nottingham, UK

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]