George Blumenthal

University of California, Santa Cruz

George Blumenthal is Chancellor Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His Ph.D. degree is from UC San Diego, and his research interests include theoretical cosmology, the theory of cold dark matter, and active galactic nuclei. He was the chair of the UC system Academic Senate, the faculty representative to the UC Regents, and later UC Santa Cruz Chancellor from 2006-2019. He was also Director of the UC Berkeley Center for Studies in Higher Education. He has co-authored three books and serves on several nonprofit boards, including the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the Keck Observatory, and the American University of Armenia.