Dr. Puthoff is currently the Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Austin, Texas, a position held for more than 10 years. He is considered one of the premier theoretical physicists in the field of vacuum zero point energy and has published several of the seminal papers in the area. A graduate of Stanford University, he has been a Research Associate and Lecturer there in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Dr. Puthoff also served several years as the Director for the Cognitive Sciences Program at SRI International. As a theoretical and experimental physicist he has worked in the areas of fundamental electrodynamics, quantum vacuum states, gravitation, cosmology, and high power microelectronics. He has authored more than 30 technical papers and is co-author of the textbook Fundamentals of Quantum Electronics. He is listed in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, Who’s Who in the World, and is a Fellow of the Fetzer Institute.