Malina obtained his Bachelor of Science in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972, and his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1979.[1] He was principal investigator for the NASA Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer Satellite at the University of California, Berkeley.[2] He is former director of the Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence (OAMP) and of the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille in Marseille, and member of its observational cosmology group, which investigates the nature of dark matter and dark energy.[2][3][4]
Malina is president of the Association Leonardo in France, which fosters connections between the arts, sciences and technology, and has been the editor-in-chief of Leonardo magazine at MIT Press since 1982.[2] He is also member of the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Study (Institut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées, IMERA),[2] which he has helped to set up[2] and which aims at contributing to interdisciplinarity and which places emphasis on the human dimensions of the sciences.[5] He is member of the jury for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge 2011.[6]
Malina is the son of Frank Malina, who was a research engineer in rocket propulsion, first director of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and kinetic artist and founder of Leonardo Journal.
In 1986, Malina married British Internet content pioneer and educator Christine Maxwell. They have three children, sons Xavier (born 1988) and Yuri (born 1990) and daughter Giselle (born 1991).[8]
Publications
Books
Stuart Bowyer and Roger F. Malina (eds.): Astrophysics in the Extrême Ultraviolet, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996, ISBN978-0-7923-3908-3
Roger F. Malina and Stuart Bowyer (eds.): Extreme Ultraviolet Astronomy, Pergamon Press, 1991.
Jürgen Claus, "Roger F. Malina", in: "Liebe die Kunst. Eine Autobiografie in einundzwanzig Begegnungen", Kerber/ZKM, 2013, pp. 204–217. ISBN978-3-86678-788-9
References
^Curriculum vitae, Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille-Provence, downloaded 19. November 2011