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BEYOND People

	Paul Davies Director of BEYOND Center, Director of the Center for the Convergence of Physial Science and Cancer Biology, co-Director of Cosmology initiative and Regents' Professor at ASU Paul Davies is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist and best-selling author. His research ranges from the origin of the universe to the origin of life, and includes the properties of black holes, the nature of time and quantum field theory. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 1995 Templeton Prize, the 2002 Michael Faraday Prize from the Royal Society and the 2011 Robinson prize in Cosmology.
	Lawrence M.Krauss Associate Director of BEYOND, Foundation Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics, and Director of ASU's Origins Initiative Lawrence M. Krauss is an internationally known theoretical physicist with wide research interests, including the interface between elementary particle physics and cosmology, the nature of dark matter, general relativity and neutrino astrophysics. He is the author of many scientific publications as well as several acclaimed popular books.
	Tanmay Vachaspati co-Director of Cosmology initiative, Affiliate Professor, BEYOND Center, Department of Physics and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Tanmay Vachaspati is a highly regarded theoretical physicist working at the intersections of particle physics, astrophysics, general relativity, and cosmology. He is the author of over 150 publications n cosmic strings, magnetic monopoles, black holes, and cosmological magnetic fields. He is a Rosenbaum Fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute, Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
	Damien Easson Affiliate Professor, BEYOND Center and Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Damien Easson is a theoretical physicist researching topics such as the interface of fundamental particle physics and cosmology.He received his Ph.D. from Brown University and has worked at McGill University, Syracuse University, Durham University and Tokyo University. His research interests include the very early universe, inflation, dark energy, modified gravity, black hole physics and connections between string theory, quantum gravity and cosmology.
	Ariel D. Anbar Affiliated Professor, BEYOND Center and Associate Professor jointly appointed in the School of Earth & Space Exploration and Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at ASU Ariel Anbar has received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1989 and completed his Ph.D. in Geological and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. His topic of research uses chemical concepts and apporaches to study geological, chemical and biological processes that shape the Earth's surface environment and how they have changed through time.
	Maulik Parikh Associate Professor, BEYOND Center, Department of Physics and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Maulik Parikh is a theoretical physicist. His research focuses on the classical and quantum nature of gravity. He has done research on black holes, theoretical cosmology, gravitational aspects of string theory, and other foundational areas in physics.
	Sara Imari Walker Post Doctorate fellow Sara Imari Walker is a NASA Astrobiology Institute postdoctoral fellow. She received her PhD in Physics from Dartmouth College and worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Chemical Evolution at Georgia Tech. She is fascinated by all questions regarding the nature of life in the universe.Her research focuses on the origin of life, combining techniques from theoretical physics, chemistry, and information science, to uncover how the first living systems might have arisen on a lifeless planet.

Adjunct Professors

Name
Yakir Aharonov
Dr. Gilbert V. Levin
Christopher P. McKay
Jeffrey Tollaksen
Felisa Wolfe-Simon

Advisory Board

Name	Position
Robert Nemanich	Chair and Professor, Department of Physics
George Poste	Chf Scientist & Regent's Prof, Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative (CASI)
Rick Shangraw	Senior Vice President for the Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development (OKED)
Quentin Wheeler	Director, International Institute for Species Exploration (IISE)