RAY JAYAWARDHANA is a professor at the University of Toronto, where he also serves as Canada Research Chair in observational astrophysics.His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Economist and Scientific American, among other publications. The recipient of the 2003 Science Writing Award for a Scientist from the American Institute of Physics, he is the author of Strange New Worlds, named one of Library Journal’s best science books of 2011 and finalist for the Lane Anderson Award for science writing. Jayawardhana lives in Toronto, Ontario.

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