Menas C. Kafatos, PhD, is a quantum physicist, cosmologist, his work also emphasizes natural and anthropogenic hazards for the Earth. He works as researcher and philosopher extensively on consciousness and the nature of the mind. He studied with renown physicist Philip Morrison at M.I.T., who was a student of J. Robert Oppenheimer. He has 50 years of experience in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research.

Menas is the Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor of Computational Physics and Director, Institute for Earth, Computing, Human and Observing at Chapman University in California. He is foreign member of the Romanian Academy of Science and the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST); an international scholar working with the Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering also having served as an advisor on the BK21 Plus Eco-Leader Education Center at Korea University in Seoul, Korea and in the past, an affiliated researcher at the National Observatory of Athens, Greece.

Menas has authored 350-plus articles and published or co-authored 26 books, including The Conscious Universe, Looking In, Seeing Out and Science, Reality & Everyday Life and has many social media and blogs. He is often interviewed for international television networks, newspapers, and radio.