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Catherine Asaro,
Theoretical physicist, author, vocalist, and entrepreneur.
Catherine Asaro received her Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from Harvard University and wrote her doctorate in Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics. She is a science fiction author with over twenty-five novels published as well as numerous works of shorter fiction and non-fiction.
She has also written scientific articles for publications such as the Journal of Chemical Physics and the American Journal of Physics. Among the places she has done research are the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Max Plank Institut in Germany, and the University of Toronto. She served of president of the board of directors for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and is the president and founder of Starflight Music, an independent record label. Asaro teaches as a visiting professor in the Physics Department of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and also coaches profoundly gifted math students in high school and middle school for top-ranked national and international contests, including the USA Mathematical Olympiad and the American Regional Mathematics League. She is a member of SIGMA, a think tank of speculative writers that advises the government as to future trends affecting national security.
As an author, Asaro is a two-time winner of the prestigious Nebula® Award, sometimes known as the “Oscar of Science Fiction,” for her novel, The Quantum Rose and her novella “The Spacetime Pool.” She has won numerous other awards for her science fiction, fantasy, and high-tech thrillers. Her critically acclaimed romantic thriller, The Veiled Web, tells the story of the Moroccan CEO of a multi-national corporation run on Islamic economic principles. Praised by Publisher’s Weekly for its “respectful evocation of Islamic culture,” it won the Homer Award, the National Reader's Choice Award, and Prism Award for year 2000. Asaro has appeared as a futurist and keynote speaker at conventions in both the United States and abroad, including this year at the Author Guest of Honor at the New Zealand National Science Fiction Convention.
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