Basarab Nicolescu is the president of the International Center for Transdisciplinary Research and Studies in Paris. He was born in 1942 in Ploiesti, Romania and received his Ph.D. at Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris in 1972. He is a specialist in the theory of elementary particle physics. He is the author of more than a hundred articles in leading international scientific journals and has made numerous contributions to science anthologies and several dozen French radio documentaries on science. For many years he has collaborated with G. F. Chew, former Dean of Physics at the University of California at Berkeley and founder of Bootstrap Theory. They have jointly published several articles on the topological framework of Bootstrap Theory. Nicolescu is a major advocate of the transdisciplinary reconciliation between science and the humanities and is the author of The Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity, State University of New York Press. Professor Nicolescu is a member of the International Society of Science and Religion.