18 Facts About Kevin Grazier

Kevin Grazier is an expert in computational methods and planetary dynamics and performs large-scale, long-term simulations of early Solar System evolution, dynamics, and chaos.

Kevin Grazier is the science consultant for several television series and movies, most notably the series Defiance, Battlestar Galactica, and Eureka, and the films Gravity and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.

Kevin Grazier attended Purdue University on an NROTC scholarship, but due to an ankle surgery before his final semester, he was disqualified from further military service.

Kevin Grazier has Bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Geology, and a Master's degree in Physics, from Purdue University.

Kevin Grazier has a bachelor's degree in Physics from Oakland University, and a master's degree in Geophysics and Space Physics from the University of California, Los Angeles.

When Kevin Grazier started getting recurring entertainment industry consulting work, he returned to UCLA, and earned a certificate in television screenwriting.

Later, Kevin Grazier created the Cassini Tour Atlas, a large database with geometrical values and event times, used for mission and observation planning, flight rule constraint checking, and data analysis.

Kevin Grazier led a small team that designed software to automatically regenerate the Tour Atlas for hypothetical spacecraft trajectories, or when the actual trajectory was subject to change.

From July 2016 to July 2018, Kevin Grazier was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the US Military Academy in West Point, NY.

Kevin Grazier has been an adjunct professor of astronomy at both Santa Monica College and Pierce College, having taught evening classes on astronomy and the "Science of Science Fiction" at UCLA.

Kevin Grazier is a frequent public speaker about science, space, technology, and the portrayal of science and scientists by the entertainment industry.

Kevin Grazier has spoken to K-12 and college classes, given commencement addresses, spoken at film festivals, and gave a TEDx talk about the search for life in the Solar System.

Kevin Grazier was a featured speaker at the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Purdue University Department of Computer Sciences, as well as at the 2015 Stories about Science Conference at the University of Manchester in the UK, and the Communicating Science to the Public Conference in Cambridge, MA.

Kevin Grazier appears frequently at science fiction conventions, in particular Dragon*Con in Atlanta and San Diego Comic-Con.

Since 2001 Kevin Grazier has been consulting on NASA educational product review panels.

At Paramount, Kevin Grazier met staff writers Bryan Fuller and Michael Taylor.

In 2001, Kevin Grazier was the honorary chairperson of the first-ever Oakland University "Week of Champions" celebration.

In 2013, Kevin Grazier was honored as an Outstanding Alumnus by the Purdue University School of Science.