12 Facts About Marcelo Gleiser

Marcelo Gleiser was born on 19 March 1959 and is a Brazilian-American physicist and astronomer.

Marcelo Gleiser is the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and a professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College.

Marcelo Gleiser was a postdoctoral researcher at Fermilab until 1988, and thereafter until 1991 at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics.

Since 1991 Marcelo Gleiser has taught at Dartmouth College, where he was awarded the Appleton Professorship of Natural Philosophy in 1999, and is currently a professor of physics and astronomy.

Marcelo Gleiser is the co-discoverer of "oscillons," time-dependent long-lived field configurations which are present in many physical systems from cosmology to vibrating grains.

Marcelo Gleiser is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and served as its General Councilor.

Marcelo Gleiser has been awarded the Presidential Faculty Fellows Award from the White House and the National Science Foundation.

Marcelo Gleiser is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy.

Marcelo Gleiser is the co-founder of a science and culture blog, hosted by National Public Radio from 2011 to 2018, and now hosted by BigThink under the new name 13.8: Science, Culture, and Meaning.

In 2024, Marcelo Gleiser founded a think tank in Tuscany called The Island of Knowledge, dedicated to addressing foundational scientific and philosophical questions and to fostering planetary health and human flourishing.

Marcelo Gleiser is the author of over 100 refereed articles and thousands of essays, as well as 8 books in English and 16 in Portuguese translated into 18 languages.

In September 2023, astrophysicists, including Marcelo Gleiser, questioned the overall current view of the universe, in the form of the Standard Model of Cosmology, based on the latest James Webb Space Telescope studies.