Dr Perry is the founder of the Space Science Engineering/environmental Foundation (SSE²F). He has held the US and Canada National Science Foundation Fellowship at University of Oxford and has received a Royal Society Fellowship at Imperial College London where he remains as academic staff. He has a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, and is a certified NASA astrobiologist. His current focus is on education. In his spare time, he enjoys writing and is the author of six novels under RS Perry. He is a script writer and is a member of the Writers Guild of America West. He has visited many of the Earth’s extreme habitats, including diving in ‘Alvin’ to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. He has also sailed across the Atlantic in a small sailboat.