Adam Frank

ADAM FRANK is the Helen F. and Fred H. Gowen Professor in the department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester. A Carl Sagan Medal winner from the American Astronomical Society, he is also the author of Light of the Stars and wasthe science adviser for Marvel's Doctor Strange. Frank is the principal investigator on NASA's first grant to study technosignatures--signs of advanced civilizations on other worlds--and his current work focuses on the evolution of life and planets, the "Astrobiology of the Anthropocene," and the long-term trajectory of civilizations. He lives in Rochester, New York.