Gregory Benford is a physicist, educator, and author. He received his Ph.D. in 1967 from UC San Diego. Benford is a professor of physics at UC Irvine, where he has been a faculty member since 1971. He conducts research in plasma turbulence theory and experiment, and in astrophysics. He has published over a hundred papers in fields of physics from condensed matter, particle physics, plasmas and mathematical physics, and several in biological conservation. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Cambridge University, and has served as an advisor to the Department of Energy, NASA and the White House Council on Space Policy. In 1995 he received the Lord Foundation Award for contributions to science and the public comprehension of it. He is the author of over 20 novels, including Jupiter Project, Artifact, Against Infinity, and Timescape. He is a two-time winner of the Nebula Award.