Alex Soojung-Kim Pang is a research director at IFTF and content lead and information ecologist for Signtific, the Institute's study of the future of science. Alex is also an Associate Fellow at Oxford University's Saïd Business School, and a Visiting Scholar in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology program at Stanford University. He holds a B.A. and Ph.D. in history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania. He can be reached at apang {at) iftf (dot) org, or through his blog.

Alex has conducted research on the future of scientific publishing, geographies of innovation, and national competitiveness in science. He has written forecasts on rapid prototyping, RFID, simulations, biomimicry, social software, nanotechnology and MEMS, and geolocation services. Alex also participates in the Institute's work on the future of sustainability and environmental science.

Before joining IFTF, Alex served as managing editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, where he oversaw its transition from print to electronic publication in the late 1990s. He taught at Williams College and the University of California, Davis, and held postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. Alex is the author of Empire and the Sun: Victorian Solar Eclipse Expeditions (Stanford University Press, 2002), and numerous articles in scholarly and popular publications.