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Jeremy Farrar, Director of the biomedical charity, the Welcome Trust, one of the worlds largest and wealthiest research charities.  The Trust has been described as the UK’s largest provider of non-governmental funding for scientific research and one of the largest providers in the world. In the field of medical research, it is the world's second-largest private funder after the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Photographed by Ed Marshall in the Welcome Trust building on the Euston Road for In Search of Optimism.

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Dr.Tali Sharot is director of the Affective Brain Lab at UCL and author of ‘The Optimism Bias’

Photographed in her office at UCL for In Search of Optimism by Ed Marshall

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Liz Pellicano, photographed for In search of Optimism

Dr Pellicano is a developmental cognitive scientist committed to understanding the distinctive opportunities and challenges often faced by autistic children, young people and adults and tracing their impact on everyday life – at home, at school and out-and-about in the community. She trained as an educational psychologist in Perth, Australia, where she also completed her PhD on the cognitive profile of children with autism, before becoming a Research Fellow in Psychiatry at the University of Oxford. She is Director of the Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE) at the Institute of Education London

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Emma Morris, Professor of Clinical Cell and Gene Therapy at the UCL Institute of Immunity and Transplantation. Photographed for ‘In Search of Optimism’ at the Royal Free Hospital London.

Emma’s work enables the bodies immune system to recognise and attack cancer cells.

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Prof Chris Toumazou, European Inventor of the Year and Biomedical engineer at Imperial College London, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

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Jason Forshaw Aerospace R&D Manager at the Surrey Space Centre part of the University of Surrey.

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Dr Malcolm Hawkesford, head of the plant biology and crop sciences department and the 20-20 Wheat project. Photographed at Rothamsted Research

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Hugh Montgomery, UCL Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, Head of the ‘Centre for Human Health and Performance’ and Director of Research at the ‘Institute for Sport, Exercise and Health’ Hugh is also a consultant for AI company Google Deepmind, looking at ways AI could be used within the health service.

Photographed in his office by Ed Marshall for ‘In Search of Optimism’ 

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Dr Alex Kumar, photographed for In Search of Optimism by Ed Marshall.

Alex has over wintered in Antarctica working with the European Space Agency, observing the psychological and physical effects of isolation on the crew of the Concordia station, the results of his work will help the ESA prepare for manned missions to Mars.

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Jim Al-Khalili, theoretical physicist and broadcaster, photographed in his office at the University of Surrey by Ed Marshall for In Search of Optimism

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Dr Louisa Preston, an Astro Biologist searching for life on other planets and studying extremophiles on this one. Photographed in the Barbican Centre’s conservatory for the In Search of Optimism project by Ed Marshall

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Sophie Scott, Deputy Director of Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Photographed in her office for ‘In Search of Optimism’

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Professor David Vaughan, Director of Science, British Antarctic Survey

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Nobel Prize winner Sir Tim Hunt, Emeritus Principle Scientist Cancer Research UK. Photographed in his office at Cancer Research UK/Francis Crick Institute.

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Liz Thomas, Ice Core Palaeoclimatologist and head of the BAS Ice Core Group, part of the Ice Dynamics and Palaeoclimate team. Photographed on the Ice Core Lab and the UK’s only Ice Core cold room kept at -25c

Part of the In Search of Optimism project.

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Dr Andy Smith, Glaciologist, British Antarctic Survey

Photographed for In Search of Optimism by Ed Marshall

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Tracy Moffat-Griffin, Gravity Waves Physicist working as part of the Atmosphere and Ice Climate team at the British Antarctic Survey.

Photographed at the BAS offices in Cambridge by Ed Marshall for the In Search of Optimism project.