Download Dr. Paul G. Falkowski

Paul G. Falkowski is the Bennett L. Smith Professor of Business and Natural Resources in the
Departments of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Earth and Planetary Sciences and Supply Chain
Management and Marketing Sciences at Rutgers University. His research interests include
evolution, paleoecology, photosynthesis, biophysics, biogeochemical cycles, symbiosis and
sustainable energy. Born in 1951 and raised in New York City, Falkowski earned his B.S. and
M.Sc. degrees from the City College of the City University of New York and his Ph.D. from the
University of British Columbia. After a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Rhode
Island, he joined Brookhaven National Laboratory 1976 as a scientist in the newly formed
Oceanographic Sciences Division. He served as head of the division from 1986 to 1991, and from
1991 to 1995 he was Deputy Chair in the Department of Applied Science, responsible for the
development and oversight of all environmental science programs. In 1998 he moved to Rutgers
University. His research efforts are directed towards understanding the co-evolution of biological
and physical systems. In 1992 he received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1996 he was
appointed as the Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor at the University of British
Columbia. In 1998 he was awarded the Huntsman Medal. In 2000 he was awarded the
Hutchinson Prize. In 2001 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. In
2002 he was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2005 he
received the Vernadsky medal from the European Geosciences Union. In 2007 he was elected to
the National Academy of Sciences. He has authored or coauthored over 350 papers in peerreviewed journals and books. Together with John Raven, he is co-author of Aquatic
Photosynthesis (Princeton University Press), and a new book, Life’s Engines (published in Spring
2015). He has co-invented and patented a fluorosensing system which is capable of measuring
phytoplankton photosynthetic rates nondestructively and in real time. He is the founding Director
of the Rutgers Energy Institute and heads the Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology
program at the university.