Dr. Michio Kaku is a renowned theoretical physicist, bestselling author, acclaimed public speaker, futurist, and popularizer of science. As co-founder of String Field Theory, a branch of string theory, Dr. Kaku carries on Einstein’s quest to unite the four fundamental forces of nature (the strong force, the weak force, gravity, and electromagnetism) into a single grand unified theory of everything.

He is the author of numerous New York Times Bestselling Books, including The God Equation(2021), The Future of the Mind(2014), Physics of the Future(2011), Physics of the Impossible(2008), Parallel Worlds(2006), Einstein’s Cosmos(2005), Visions(1999), Beyond Einstein(1995), and Hyperspace(1994). He is the author of several scholarly, Ph.D. level textbooks and has had more than 70 articles published in physics journals, covering topics such as superstring theory, supergravity, supersymmetry, and hadronic physics.

Kaku has starred in a myriad of science programming for television, including Discovery, Science Channel, BBC, ABC, and History Channel. Beyond his numerous bestselling books, he has also been a featured columnist for top popular science publications such as Popular Mechanics, Discover, COSMOS, WIRED, New Scientist, Newsweek, and many others. Dr. Kaku was also one of the subjects of the award-winning documentary Me & Isaac Newton.

He is a news contributor to CBS: This Morning and is a regular guest on news programs around the world, including CBS, Fox News, CNBC, MSNBC, and CNN. He has also made guest appearances on all major talk shows, including The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert, The Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Conan on TBS, and others.

Kaku hosts two weekly radio programs heard on stations around the country and podcasts around the world – Science Fantastic, a live science radio talk show which airs every Saturday, and Explorations in Science — airing every first, third, and fifth Fridays of each month and podcast every Tuesday.

He holds the Henry Semat Chair and Professorship in theoretical physics at the City College of New York (CUNY). He received a B.S. (summa cum laude) from Harvard University in 1968 where he came first in his physics class. He went on to the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, and received a Ph.D. in 1972. In 1973, he held a lectureship at Princeton University.