The Project Fibonacci Foundation is excited to announce our first confirmed speaker for the 2019 Speakers Series as part of the 4th Annual Project Fibonacci STEAM Leadership Conference.
Robert Zubrin
Author, Aerospace Engineer & President of Pioneer Astronautic
Robert Zubrin, formerly a Staff Engineer at Lockheed Martin Astronautics in Denver is now president of his own company, Pioneer Astronautics. He holds Masters degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics and a doctorate in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Washington. He is the inventor for over 15 US patents for technologies in the field of space propulsion, exploration, and energy, the author of over 200 published technical and non-technical papers in the field, as well the non-fiction books “The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must” (Simon and Schuster 1996), “Entering Space” (Tarcher Putnam 1999), “Mars on Earth” (Tarcher Penguin 2003), “Energy Victory” (Prometheus Books, 2007)and “Merchants of Despair,” (Encounter Books, 2012). He is also the author of the novels “The Holy Land,” (Polaris Books, 2003) and “First Landing,” (Ace 2001), and the science-humor immigrant guidebook, “How to Live on Mars” (Three Rivers Press, 2008). His most recent work is “The Case for Space: How the Space Revolution Opens a Future of Limitless Possibility,” (Prometheus Books, 2019.)
He is a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society and former Chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Space Society. He is the founder of the Mars Society; an international organization dedicated to furthering the exploration and settlement of Mars by both public and private means. In that capacity, he personally led the construction and operation of a human Mars exploration training station on Devon Island, an uninhabited island in the Canadian Arctic 900 miles from the North Pole. Prior to his work in astronautics, Dr. Zubrin was employed in areas of thermonuclear fusion research, nuclear engineering, radiation protection, and as a high school science teacher.
