Guillermo Gonzalez

Guillermo Gonzalez is an astronomer and writer whose work moves between peer-reviewed astrophysics and the questions that outlast a research paper. He has worked at the University of Washington, the University of Texas at Austin, Grove City College, Ball State University, and the University of Alabama at Huntsville. Currently, he works with the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization and with JPL on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraphic instrument. His research spans stellar astrophysics, planetary habitability, and galactic chemical evolution, and he co-originated the concept of the Galactic Habitable Zone. He is co-author of "The Privileged Planet" with Jay W. Richards and author of "Destined to Explore," on humanity's prospects as a spacefaring civilization. His fiction includes "The Farm at the Center of the Universe" and "The Expanding Universe of the Farm."