Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Dirk Schulze-Makuch

professor at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Washington State University

Date of Birth: 29-Jan-1964

Place of Birth: Gießen, Hesse, Germany

Profession: geologist, researcher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Dirk Schulze-Makuch (born 1964) is a professor at the Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Technical University Berlin, Germany.
He is best known for his publications on extraterrestrial life, being coauthor of five books on the topic: The Cosmic Zoo: Complex Life on Many Worlds (2017), A One Way Mission to Mars: Colonizing the Red Planet (2011), We Are Not Alone: Why We Have Already Found Extraterrestrial Life (2010), Cosmic Biology: How Life could Evolve on Other Worlds (2010), and Life in the Universe: Expectations and Constraints (2004, 2008, 2018).
In 2012 he published with David Darling Megacatastrophes! Nine Strange Ways the World Could End.
In 2013 he published the second edition of his science fiction novel Alien Encounter.
Together with Paul Davies he proposed in 2010 exploration of Mars by a one-way trip to the planet.