Alex Soojung-Kim Pang is content lead and information ecologist for X2, the Institute's study of the future of science, and conducts research on emerging technologies and their social and cultural impacts. Alex is also  an Associate Fellow at Oxford University's Saïd Business School, and a Senior Research Scholar at in the STS program Stanford University. He holds a B.A. and Ph.D. in history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Alex has conducted research on the future of scientific publishing, the emergence of new disciplines, the geography 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. Before entering the business world, 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. He is also regularly quoted in newspaper and radio articles on new technologies.