Dean Radin, PhD, has been Chief Scientist at the INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES (IONS) since 2001, and Associated Distinguished Professor of Integral and Transpersonal Psychology at the CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES (CIIS) since 2016. His original career track as a concert violinist moved into science after earning a BSEE degree in electrical engineering, magna cum laude with honors in physics, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and then an MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. For a decade he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories and GTE Laboratories on advanced telecommunications R&D. For the last three decades he has been engaged in research on the nature of consciousness at IONS, Princeton University, University of Edinburgh (Scotland), University of Nevada, and SRI International.
He is author or coauthor of over 250 scientific and popular articles, three dozen book chapters, and three popular books including the award-winning and bestselling The Conscious Universe (HarperOne, 1997), Entangled Minds (Simon & Schuster, 2006), and a 2014 Silver Nautilus Book Award, Supernormal (Random House, 2013). His forthcoming book will be published in 2018 by PenguinRandomHouse. These books have been translated into 14 foreign languages, so far. His technical articles have appeared in journals ranging from Foundations of Physics and Physics Essays to Psychological Bulletin and Journal of Consciousness Studies. His work was featured in the New York Times Magazine, and he has appeared on dozens of television shows and film documentaries worldwide.
He has given over 375 interviews and talks, including invited presentations at Harvard (on medicine), Stanford (statistics), Cambridge (physics), Princeton (psychology), Virginia Tech (human factors), the Sorbonne (yoga), the University of British Columbia (psychic phenomena), for industries including Google, Johnson & Johnson, and Rabobank, and for government and military agencies including the US Navy, DARPA, the National Academy of Sciences, the Indian Council of Philosophical Research (India), the International Center for Leadership and Governance (Malaysia), and the Australian Leadership Retreat.