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Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi is a polymath astrophysicist, inventor, and award-winning science

communicator. He is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir A Quantum Life and the

forthcoming Why Do We Exist? The Nine Realms of the Universe That Make You Possible. He

serves as CEO of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and as Public Spokesperson for

NASA’s IMAP mission.

Oluseyi has held professorships at Florida Institute of Technology, MIT, Princeton, the

University of Cape Town, and other leading institutions, published more than 100 scientific

papers, and holds multiple U.S. and international patents. He is an inductee of the National

Academy of Inventors and the recipient of numerous honors for research, education, and public

communication.