Professor Michael John Gorman is currently founding director of Biotopia a major new museum for life sciences and environment in Munich. He was founding director of the Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin and Science Gallery International. Michael John has published widely on the history of science and technology in journals including Nature, Science and Leonardo. He has a B.A. in Physics and Philosophy from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in History from the European University Institute in Florence. He has held academic posts in Harvard, MIT and Stanford.
In January 2024, MIT has appointed Michael John Gorman Director of the recently re-imagined MIT Museum.
