Sean M. Carroll

Biography

Sean Michael Carroll (born October 5, 1966) is an American theoretical physicist who specializes in quantum mechanics, cosmology, and the philosophy of science. He is the Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, was formerly a research professor at the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics at Caltech, and serves as an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Carroll has contributed to the Cosmic Variance blog and published in journals and outlets such as Nature, The New York Times, Sky & Telescope, and New Scientist.

He is known as a prolific public speaker and science popularizer, and for his atheism and public critique of theism in defense of naturalism. In 2007 he was named an NSF Distinguished Lecturer. Carroll has appeared on several television programs, authored the graduate textbook Spacetime And Geometry and multiple popular books, launched the Mindscape podcast in 2018, and produces the YouTube series "The Biggest Ideas in the Universe," which has become a multi-volume book series.

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