Jenann Ismael
Jenann Ismael is the William H. Miller III Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and a co-founder of the university's Natural Philosophy Forum, which is an initiative for people interested in investigating the foundations of reality at the intersection of science and philosophy.
Her research focuses on the philosophy of physics and metaphysics, especially areas involving the structure of space and time, quantum mechanics, and the foundations of physical laws. She has published four books: Time: A Very Short Introduction, How Physics Makes Us Free, The Situated Self, and Essays on Symmetry.
Prior to Johns Hopkins, Ismael was Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and affiliate of the Zuckerman Institute and taught at Stanford University and the University of Arizona.