Roger Malina (born July 6, 1950) is an American

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of ''Leonardo Publications'' by Leonardo, the International Society of Arts, Sciences and Technology (published by

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) and

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of arts and technology, and professor of physics at the

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Education and career

Malina obtained his

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in physics from

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in 1972, and his Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1979.Curriculum vitae
Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille-Provence, downloaded 19. November 2011 He was Principal Investigator for the NASA Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer Satellite at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. He is former director of the ''Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence'' (OAMP) and of the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille in

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, and member of its observational cosmology group, which investigates the nature of

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and

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. Malina is president of the ''Association Leonardo'' in France, which fosters connections between the arts, sciences and technology, and has been the editor-in-chief of ''Leonardo magazine'' at

since 1982. He is also member of the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Study (''Institut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées'', IMERA),Roger Malina
on his own site, downloaded 19. November 2011 which he has helped to set up and which aims at contributing to interdisciplinarity and which places emphasis on the human dimensions of the sciences. He is member of the jury for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge 2011. Malina serves on the Advisory Council of

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. In 2011, Malina was appointed as

of art and technology and professor of physics at the

, where he commenced teaching in Spring 2012. His specialty in astrophysics is space instrumentation. His current work focuses on connections between science and art.

Personal life

Malina is the son of

Frank Malina Frank Joseph Malina (October 2, 1912 — November 9, 1981) was an American aeronautical engineer and painter, especially known for becoming both a pioneer in the art world and the realm of scientific engineering. Early life Malina was born in B ...

, who was a research engineer in rocket propulsion, first director of the

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, and kinetic artist and founder of ''Leonardo Journal''. In 1986, Malina married British Internet content pioneer and educator Christine Maxwell. They have three children, sons Xavier (born 1988) and Yuri (born 1990) and daughter Giselle (born 1991).

Publications

;Books: * Stuart Bowyer and Roger F. Malina (eds.): ''Astrophysics in the Extrême Ultraviolet'', Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996, * Roger F. Malina and Stuart Bowyer (eds.): ''Extreme Ultraviolet Astronomy'', Pergamon Press, 1991. * Jürgen Claus, "Roger F. Malina", in: "Liebe die Kunst. Eine Autobiografie in einundzwanzig Begegnungen", Kerber/ZKM, 2013, pp. 204–217.

References

External links

Roger Malina
on his own site
Curriculum vitae
Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille-Provence

digi-arts UNESCO knowledge portal
Curriculum vitae abrégé
(in French language)
Roger MAlina
academia.edu {{DEFAULTSORT:Malina, Roger American people of Czech descent Living people 1950 births 20th-century American physicists University of Texas at Dallas faculty American editors Maxwell family