Panelist Biography

Raymond JEANLOZ is a professor of Earth and planetary science and of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, and an Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. In addition to his scientific research on planetary interiors and the properties of materials at high pressures, he works at the interface between science and policy, providing technical advice to the U.S. government, and to the University of California and its national laboratories. He chairs the National Academies of Sciences Committee on International Security and Arms Control; has served on the Secretary of State's International Security Advisory Board; is the past chair of the National Academies' Board on Earth Sciences and Resources; and is a founding member of the Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction.