Curriculum Vitae Paul C.W. Davies Beyond: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science Arizona State University http://beyond.asu.edu P.O. Box 871504, Tempe, AZ 85287-1504 (480) 727-0774 Fax: 480 965 7954 [email protected] Nationality: British & Australian Education/degrees BSc First Class in Physics, University College London, 1967 Ph.D, Physics Department, University College London, 1970 DSc honoris causa, Macquarie University, Sydney (2006) DSc honoris causa, Chapman University, California (2009) Professional Appointments Current: Regents’ Professor, Arizona State University (Since 2012) Professor of Physics, Arizona State University (Since 2006) Director, Beyond: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, Arizona State University (Since 2006) Principal Investigator, Center for the Convergence of Physical Science and Cancer Biology, Arizona State University (Since 2009) Visiting Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London (Since 2014) Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics, University of Queensland (Since 1998) 2001 – 2006: Professor of Natural Philosophy, Macquarie University 1993 – 1997: Professor of Natural Philosophy, Department of Physics, The University of Adelaide 1990 – 1993: Professor of Mathematical Physics, The University of Adelaide 1980 – 1990: Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1972 – 1980: Lecturer in Mathematics, King's College, University of London 1970 – 1972: Research Fellow, Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, University of Cambridge Professional organizations Member, International Academy of Astronautics Fellow, American Physical Society Fellow, UK Institute of Physics Chartered Physicist (CPhys), UK Institute of Physics Fellow, Australian Institute of Physics Fellow, Royal Literary Society Honorary Fellow, Indian Astronomical Society Honorary Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Physics Member, New York Academy of Sciences Member, Foundational Questions Institute Member, International Society for Science and Religion Awards and honors International Academy of Astronautics (2014) Regents’ Professor at Arizona State University (2012) Robinson Cosmology Prize (2011) Fellowship of University College London (2011) Bicentenary Medal of Chile (2011) Klumpke-Roberts Prize, Astronomical Society of the Pacific (2011) DSc honoris causa, Chapman University, California (2009) Member of the Order of Australia (2007) DSc honoris causa, Macquarie University, Sydney (2006) Trotter Prize, Texas A & M University (2004) Wilbur Award for religious-themed media, USA (2004) J.K. Russell Fellowship, CTNS, Berkeley (2003) American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award (2003) Michael Faraday Award, The Royal Society (2002) Nomination, Australian of the Year (2002) Kelvin Medal and Prize, Institute of Physics, UK (2001) The Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion (1995) Templeton - CTNS Book Prize (1995) Advance Australia Award for outstanding contributions to science (1993) Eureka Prize for the Promotion of Science (Australia) (1992) Eureka Book Prize (Australia) (1991) Glaxo Science Writers Fellowship (UK) (1983) Asteroid 1992 OG renamed (6870) Pauldavies Full List of Publications Books The Eerie Silence: are we alone in the universe? Penguin Press (2010) The Goldilocks Enigma: why is the universe just right for life? Allen Lane, the Penguin Press (2006) Published in hardcover in the USA by Houghton Mifflin under the title Cosmic Jackpot (April 2007) How to Build a Time Machine Penguin/Viking (2001) More Big Questions (with Phillip Adams) Penguin Australia (1998) One Universe or Many Universes? Di Renzo Editore (1998) The Fifth Miracle: the search for the origin of life Allan Lane (1998) Simon & Schuster (1998) Revised ed. published under the title The Origin of Life, Penguin (2003) Are We Alone? The philosophical basis of the search for extraterrestrial life Basic Books (1995) Penguin (1995) The Big Questions (with Phillip Adams) Penguin Australia (1996) About Time: Einstein's unfinished revolution Simon & Schuster (1995) Viking (1995) Quantum Mechanics, second edition (with D. Betts) Chapman & Hall (1994) The Last Three Minutes Basic Books (1994) Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1994) The Mind of God Simon & Schuster, (1992) Penguin (1993) The Matter Myth (with J. Gribbin) Simon & Schuster (1991) Penguin (1991) Superstrings: a theory of everything? (with J.R. Brown) Cambridge University Press (1988) The Cosmic Blueprint Heinemann (1987) Simon & Schuster (1988) Revised edition, Templeton Foundation Press (2004) Fireball Heinemann (1987) The Ghost in the Atom (with J.R. Brown) Cambridge University Press (1986); Canto edition (1993) Quantum Mechanics Routledge & Kegan Paul (1984) Superforce Heinemann (1984) Simon & Schuster (1983) God and the New Physics J.M. Dent (1983) Simon & Schuster (1983) Quantum Fields in Curved Space (with N.D. Birrell) Cambridge University Press (1982) The Accidental Universe Cambridge University Press (1982) The Edge of Infinity J.M. Dent (1981) Simon & Schuster (1981) Revised ed. Penguin (1994) The Search for Gravity Waves Cambridge University Press (1980) Other Worlds J.M. Dent (1980) Simon & Schuster (1980) The Forces of Nature Cambridge University Press (1979) Second ed. (1986) The Runaway Universe J.M. Dent (1978) Harper & Row (1978) Fontana (under the title Stardoom 1979) Space and Time in the Modern Universe Cambridge University Press (1977) The Physics of Time Asymmetry Surrey University Press (1974) University of California Press (1974) Books edited Complexity and the Arrow of Time (with C.H. Lineweaver and M. Ruse) Cambridge University Press (2013) A One Way Mission to Mars: Colonizing the Red Planet (with D. Schulze-Makuch, Cosmology) Science Publishers (2011) Information and the Nature of Reality: From Physics to Metaphysics (with Niels Henrik Gregersen) Cambridge University Press (2010) Quantum Aspects of Life (with Derek Abbott and Arun Pati) Imperial College Press (2008) Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology XIV (with Richard Hoover, Gilbert Levin and Alexei Rozanov) SPIE Publications (2007) Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology X (with Richard Hoover, Gilbert Levin and Alexei Rozanov) SPIE Publications (2007) The Re-Emergence of Emergence (with Philip Clayton) Oxford University Press (2006) Science and Ultimate Reality (with John D. Barrow & Charles Harper) Cambridge University Press (2004) The New Physics Cambridge University Press (1989) Audio books The Last Three Minutes Orion Audio Books Orion Media (London) The Big Questions Louis Braille Books South Yarra, Vic., Australia Forewords, prefaces and introductions to the following books Complexity and the Arrow of Time, with C. H. Lineweaver and M. Ruse, Cambridge University Press (2013). A One Way Mission to Mars: Colonizing the Red Planet, P. Davies and D. Schulze-Makuch (Eds.), Cosmology Science Publishers (2011). Information and the Nature of Reality: From Physics to Metaphysics, with N. H. Gregersen, Cambridge University Press (2010). Thinking About Gödel and Turing: Essays on complexity, 1970-2007 by Gregory Chaitin, Singapore: World Scientific (2007). The Parallel Bang by Jack Bacon, Houston: Normandy House (2006). The Re-Emergence of Emergence, P. Clayton (Ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press (2006). Fred Hoyle: A life in science by Simon Mitton, London: Arum Press (2005). To Mars and Beyond: Search for the Origins of Life, Sydney: Art Exhibitions Australia (2001). The God Experiment by Russell Stannard, New Jersey: Paulist Press (2000). The Search for Life on Mars by Malcolm Walter, Sydney: Allen & Unwin (1999). Eclipse by Duncan Steel, London: Headline (1999). Wizards of Oz by Peter Spinks, Sydney: Allen & Unwin (1999). Ball Lightning—An Unsolved Problem in Atmospheric Physics by Mark Stenhoff, New York: Kluwer/Plenum (1999). Sharing the Universe by Seth Shostak, Berkeley: Berkeley Hills Books (1998). Patterns in the Sand by Terry Bossomaier and David Green, Sydney: Allen & Unwin (1998). Ripples on a Cosmic Sea by David Blair and Geoff McNamara, Sydney: Allen & Unwin (1997). Cosmic Bullets by Roger Clay & Bruce Dawson, Sydney: Allen & Unwin (1997). Quantum Technology by Gerard Milburn, Sydney: Allen & Unwin (1996). Six Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley (1995). Riddles in Your Teacup by Partha Ghose and Dipankar Home, Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing (1994). The Character of Physical Law by Richard Feynman, London: Penguin (1992). Physics and Philosophy by Werner Heisenberg, London: Penguin (1989). Research papers in peer-reviewed professional journals 1. ‘Quantum Non-Barking Dogs,’ with S. Walker, P. Samantray and Y. Aharonov, New Journal of Physics, [in the press] (2014). 2. ‘Targeting cancer’s weaknesses (not its strengths): Therapeutic strategies suggested by the atavistic model,’ in Bioessays 36 (2014). 3. ‘Implications of read-write genomics for cancer biology,’ Physics of Life Reviews 10, 338 (2013). 4. ‘Destination Mars: colonization via initial one-way missions,’ with D. Schulze-Makuch, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society 66, 11 (2013). 5. ‘The nature of the laws of physics and their mysterious bio-friendliness,’ Euresis Journal 5, 117 (2013). 6. ‘Self-organization and entropy production in a living cell,’ with E. Rieper and J. A. Tuszynski, BioSystems 111, 1 (2013). 7. ‘The algorithmic origins of life,’ with S. I. Walker, Journal of the Royal Society Interface 10, 869 (2012). 8. ‘Evolutionary transitions and top-down causation,’ with L. Cisneros and S. I. Walker, Proceedings of Artificial