by Gregory Benford
Gregory Benford is a physicist, educator, and author. He received a BS from the University of Oklahoma and a PhD from the University of California, San Diego. Benford is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine, where he has been a faculty member since 1971. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University. He has served as an adviser to the Department of Energy, NASA, and the White House council on Space Policy. He is the author of over thirty-five novels, short story collections, nonfiction books, including In the Ocean of Night, Foundation’s Fear, The Berlin Project, Heart of the Comet (with David Brin), Bowl of Heaven (with Larry Niven), and Timescape for which he won the United Nations Medal in Literature in 1990. A two-time winner of the Nebula Award, Benford has also won the John W. Campbell Award, the British Science Fiction Award (BSFA), and the Australian Ditmar Award. In 1995, he received the Lord Foundation Award for contributions to science and the public comprehension of it. He has served as scientific consultant to the NHK Network and for Star Trek: The Next Generation. He has been a judge for the Writers of the Future Contest since its inception.