Bernard Haisch, Ph.D., is a scientist, writer and editor with more than 30 years experience in:  proposal preparation, technical and popular writing, editing, and public presentations. He has been a guest on Coast-to-Coast AM – with an audience of nearly three million – four times. Recently he has worked in the non-profit sector on education projects. He has written two non-fiction books: The God Theory published in three languages, The Purpose Guided Universe: Believing in Einstein, Darwin and God due out in May 2010, and an unpublished novel. He also was the editor of two monographs.

He has been awarded numerous NASA study contracts, and initiated and developed two major NASA hardware proposals for Discovery-class missions in collaboration with the University of Southern California, one for $80M and another for $300M. Author or co-author of over 130 scientific publications, he served as a scientific editor of the Astrophysical Journal for ten years, and as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Scientific Exploration for twelve years. After earning his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Haisch did postdoctoral research at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. His professional positions include Staff Scientist at the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory; Deputy Director of the Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics at the University of California, Berkeley; and Visiting Scientist at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik in Garching, Germany.