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The Power List 2025 – Leading Voices Edition

Thought-provoking answers to the field’s biggest questions – and a celebration of those shaping its future

By James Strachan 08/05/2025 1 min read

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Each year, we ask the individuals on our Power List about the biggest challenges facing analytical science – visibility, talent, and data overload often come up. In 2025, add to the list economic and political turmoil – especially around research funding – which present their own serious difficulties while also amplifying those existing challenges. 

That’s why we believe the time is right for sober reflection, fresh thinking, and new solutions. So, for 2025, we’ve turned the Power List on its head. Instead of the usual nominations process, we invited entrants to respond to one of three crucial questions for the field.

Here, we present the 30 most original thoughts and compelling arguments – selected blind by our expert panel – and, as always, celebrate the thinkers behind them. 

⁠Explore the essays and discover who made the final Power List 2025 – Leading Voices Edition.

About the Author(s)

James Strachan

Over the course of my Biomedical Sciences degree it dawned on me that my goal of becoming a scientist didn’t quite mesh with my lack of affinity for lab work. Thinking on my decision to pursue biology rather than English at age 15 – despite an aptitude for the latter – I realized that science writing was a way to combine what I loved with what I was good at. From there I set out to gather as much freelancing experience as I could, spending 2 years developing scientific content for International Innovation, before completing an MSc in Science Communication. After gaining invaluable experience in supporting the communications efforts of CERN and IN-PART, I joined Texere – where I am focused on producing consistently engaging, cutting-edge and innovative content for our specialist audiences around the world.

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