AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion

Biography

Dr. Carl B. Pilcher has been the Senior Scientist for Astrobiology in the Astronomy and Physics Division of the Office of Space Science, NASA Headquarters since 2001. Prior to that, he served in a number of capacities in the Office of Space Science and the Office of Exploration related to human and robotic exploration of the solar system and to strategic and international planning.

Dr. Pilcher has Bachelors and Doctoral degrees in chemistry from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and MIT, respectively, and a masters degree in international relations from Princeton University. He was on the faculty of the Institute for Astronomy and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Hawaii for 12 years before joining NASA Headquarters in 1988.