Physicist
Sean Carroll is a Senior Research Associate at the California Institute of Technology and the author of From Eternity to Here, about cosmology and the arrow of time. His research ranges over a number of topics in theoretical physics, focusing on cosmology, field theory, particle physics, and gravitation.
Carroll is also the author of the Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity. He received his Ph.D. in 1993 from Harvard University, and has previously worked at MIT, the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Chicago.