Lawrence M. Krauss, Ph.D., is Foundation Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the Physics Dept, Co-Director of the Cosmology Initiative, and Inaugural Director of the Origins Initiative at Arizona State University. He is an internationally known theoretical physicist with wide research interests, including the interface between elementary particle physics and cosmology, where his studies include the early universe, the nature of dark matter, general relativity and neutrino astrophysics. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joined the Harvard Society of Fellows, then the faculty of Physics at Yale University, and later moved to Case Western Reserve University. Krauss is one of the few prominent scientists today to have actively crossed the chasm between science and popular culture. The author of the bestselling book, The Physics of Star Trek, he was nominated for a Grammy award for his liner notes for a Telarc CD of music from Star Trek.