Menas Kafatos
Menas Kafatos, PhD, is a quantum physicist, cosmologist, and climate-change researcher who works extensively on consciousness. He has 46 years of experience in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research, and he holds seminars and workshops for individuals and organizations on the natural laws that apply everywhere and are the foundations of the universe.
Menas is the Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair Professor of Computational Physics and Director of the Center of Excellence of Earth Systems Modeling and Observations at Chapman University in California. He is an international scholar with collaborations in the US, Korea, Japan, China, Vietnam, India, Greece, Israel and Italy, as well as foreign member of two academies, the Romanian Academy of Science and the Korean Academy of Science and Technology. He and his team of scientists work with international centers such as the National Observatory of Athens, Greece in hazards, including wildfires and earthquakes, several universities throughout the world in hazards and climate change as well as foundations of quantum mechanics, cosmology and the nature of the mind.
Menas has authored 340-plus articles and published or co-authored 21 books, including The Conscious Universe, Looking In, Seeing Out, Science, reality & everyday life, writes blogs and on-line articles. He is also co-author with Deepak Chopra of the New York Times bestseller You Are the Universe, which has now been translated into 20+ different languages, the latest being Greek and Korean. Menas is often interviewed for international television networks, newspapers, and radio.