The origins of life | Marcelo Gleiser | TEDxEast

Marcelo Gleiser is a world-renowned theoretical physicist and award-winning writer and educator. He received his PhD in Theoretical Physics from King's College, University of London in 1986. After conducting postdoctoral research at Fermilab in Chicago and at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California in Santa Barbara, he joined Dartmouth College in 1991. In 1994 he received the Presidential Faculty Fellows Award from the White House and the National Science Foundation, for his research in cosmology and dedication to teaching. He was tenured shortly after and is currently Professor of Physics and Astronomy and holder of the Appleton Professorship in Natural Philosophy. A Fellow and General Councilor of the American Physical Society, his research focuses mainly on the physics of the early universe and the emergence of complex structures in Nature, including life.