Interview with Roger Malina

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Roger Malina is an art-science researcher, astronomer and editor. Distinguished Professor of Arts and Technology and Professor of Physics at the University of Texas, Dallas. He directs the ArtScilab which develops art-science collaborations that lead both to scientific discoveries and intense contemporary art works. The Lab runs initiatives in Experimental Publishing with MIT press which seek to develop new forms of scholarly publishing and public engagement through the arteca platform. Former Directeur de Recherche of the CNRS in France and  Director of the Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence at Aix-Marseille University. His scientific specialty is in space instrumentation and big data problems; he was the Principal Investigator for the NASA Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer Satellite at the University of California, Berkeley. Founded the Leonardo organizations whose mission is to promote and make document work that explores the interaction of the arts and sciences and the arts and new technologies (STEM to STEAM); he is the Executive Editor of the Leonardo publications at MIT Press. He helped set up the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies. He is an elected member of the International Academy of Astronautics.

 

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