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Matthew Malkan

Matthew Malkan is a Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UCLA. After graduating Harvard with summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors, Dr. Matthew Malkan studied at the University of Cambridge as a Marshall Scholar. He received his PhD from Caltech on a Hertz Fellowship, and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Arizona. Upon starting his Assistant Professorship at UCLA, Dr. Malkan was a Presidential Young Investigator from 1986 to 1991. He has been Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UCLA since 1992. In 2009, Malkan was the AMC-FUMEC Distinguished Visiting Professor in Mexico. He has published over 450 refereed articles in peer-reviewed journals, and has worked extensively on astronomy-related film and television shows, behind and in front of the camera. Malkan uses a wide range of telescopes in space and on the ground to study the evolution of galaxies and their massive black holes.

Ben Zuckerman

Ben Zuckerman is a Professor in the Dept. of Physics & Astronomy at UCLA. He received undergraduate and graduate degrees from MIT and Harvard. His major scientific interests have been the birth and death of stars and planetary systems. He has maintained a continuing interest in the question of the prevalence of life — especially intelligent life — in the Universe and, beginning way back in the mid-1970s, developed and regularly taught a course on “Life in the Universe”. He also developed and taught a UCLA Honors course entitled “The 21st Century: Society, Environment, Ethics”. He believes that while our species (Homo sapiens) may be considered to be “technological”, because we are destroying our home — Earth’s biosphere — we cannot be considered to be “intelligent”. Zuckerman has co-edited six books including, Extraterrestrials, Where Are They? (Cambridge University Press) and Human Population and the Environmental Crisis (Jones & Bartlett).