Gregory Benford

Gregory Albert Benford (born January 30, 1941) is an American science fiction author, astrophysicist and cryonicist. He is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. He has published well over a hundred papers in fields of physics from condensed matter, particle physics, plasmas and mathematical physics, and several in biological conservation.

He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University, and has served as an advisor to the Department of Energy, NASA and the White House Council on Space Policy. In 1995 he received the Lord Foundation Award for contributions to science and the public comprehension of it.

Benford is the author of over 20 novels, including Jupiter Project, Artifact, Against Infinity, Eater, and Timescape. He wrote the cryonics novel Chiller (1993) under the pseudonym Sterling Blake. A two-time winner of the Nebula Award, Benford has also won the John W. Campbell Award, the Australian Ditmar Award, the 1995 Lord Foundation Award for achievement in the sciences, and the 1990 United Nations Medal in Literature.

He has been a member of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation since 1991 (or 1992? ). He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Alcor, and a member of the UK Cryonics and Cryopreservation Research Network. He is a signatory of the Scientists' Open Letter on Cryonics, having signed it on March 24, 2004.