Background
Malina, Roger F. was born on July 6, 1950 in Paris.
Malina, Roger F. was born on July 6, 1950 in Paris.
Roger Malina obtained his Bachelor of Surgery in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1979.
Research aide, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Space Research, Cambridge, 1969-1972;
summer research aide, Cambridge (Massachusetts) Electron Accelerator, 1971;
teaching assistant, University of California, Berkeley, 1972-1973;
research assistant space science laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, 1973-1979;
associate research astronomer space science laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, since 1980. Project manager for National Aeronautics and Space Administration sounding rockets, 1974. Organizer Sierra Astrophysics Conference, 1974-1976.
Project scientist for National Aeronautics and Space Administration sounding rockets, 1976-1978, Berkeley-London-Utrecht extreme ultraviolet spectrometer, 1979-1982, FAUST Spacelab 1 Instrument, 1977-1984, Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer, 1978-1986. Co-investigator IUE observations of HZ43, 1981, NGC4242, 1983. Co-director grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to the Journal Leonardo, 1984.
Director grant from the National Endowment for the Arts tothe Journal Leonardo, 1985-1987. Principal investigator Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer Science Instruments, 1985-1992. Executive director EUV Astrophysics.
Dir.Lab. Astronomy Spatiale, since 1995, National Aeronautics and Space Administration EUVE Observatory, since 1997.
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 performs on investigations on the nature of dark matter and dark energy. He is also member of the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Study (Institut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées, IMERA), which he has helped to set up and which aims at contributing to interdisciplinarity and which places emphasis on the human dimensions of the sciences. He is member of the jury for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge 2011.
Married; children: Xavier, Juri, Giselle.