Christopher Altman

Christopher Altman is an American physicist, quantum technologist, international diplomat and NASA-trained commercial astronaut who began his scientific career with a Guinness world record-holding artificial intelligence project and a NASA/USAF-supported time travel division at multidisciplinary, "Deep Future" research institute Starlab. As Director of the Board and Chief Science Officer for the world's first commercial astronaut corps then as Director with the successor to NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program, his research spans the fields of quantum technology and next-generation spaceflight. His inaugural keynote address as a candidate with the commercial astronaut corps was broadcast live to 108 sister cities around the world. NASA allocated funding to the corps for its first manned spaceflights the following spring. As a promising early career researcher, Altman was selected as ARC Future Fellow PhD Scholar in Quantum Technology under support of the Australian Research Council, the Centre for Quantum Software & Information (QSI) and the ARC Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology at the University of Technology Sydney, where he conducts forefront research to enable the full promise and potential of quantum information science. At QSI, his research foci include include space-based applications of quantum technology, quantum AI, quantum networks and cloud-based quantum computing, superconducting quantum computing, retrocausality and time symmetry in quantum mechanics. He has pioneered next-generation science and technology initiatives at world-leading research institutes and centers including multidisciplinary, Deep Future research institute Starlab, featured in a Discovery Channel Special and the Guinness Book of World Records, at NASA Ames Research Center and Kavli Institute of Nanoscience; as Chairman for the UNISCA First Committee on Disarmament and International Security-selected as annual recipient of the RSA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Government Policy-and as part of the US Government's fast-track QuIST program in the global race for quantum supremacy. He has held positions at advanced research and development centers including multidisciplinary, Deep Future research institute Starlab, NASA Ames Research Center and Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, as Chairman for the UNISCA First Committee on Disarmament and International Security, as senior scientist at an astronaut training base on a volcano in Hawai'i, and as part of the US Government's fast-track QuIST Program in the global race to reach quantum supremacy. He serves as Chief Scientist for renewable energy cryptocurrency SolarCoin and is Cofounder and Chief Scientist for open source nonprofit blockchain and SolarCoin affiliate, ElectriCChain. His contributions have been recognized with honors and awards including the Japanese Fulbright Fellowship, the Guinness Book of World Records, the annual RSA Information Security Award for Outstanding Achievement in Government Policy, a joint US Department of Defense-Department of Energy Salishan High-Performance Computing graduate fellowship, consecutive Templeton fellowships in theoretical physics with the Zeilinger research group in Austria, a prestigious ARC Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council, appointments to diplomatic and humanitarian aid missions worldwide as Extraordinary Ambassador at Large for Peace, Human Rights, Space and Next-Generation Technologies, Special Envoy to the United Nations and the European Union. Physicist and philosopher by training, Altman's research interests include breakthrough physics, quantum technology, next-generation spaceflight, quantum entanglement and teleportation, ER=EPR, retrocausality and the future of the Quantum Internet. He is a glider pilot, motorcyclist racer and enthusiast, SCUBA diver and rock climber, speaks Japanese, Dutch, and basic French, is proficient in Muay Thai kickboxing, judo, Gracie jiu jitsu and kendo. In Japan, he attained the rank of shodan, or first degree black belt in Kyudo, traditional Japanese archery.