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Andrew E. Love
Andrew Love has Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics and works as an engineer in Maryland. He has given talks about the science of science fiction, reasoning skills, general relativity, the likelihood of alien life and other topics to a wide range of audience (middle schoolers, college students, amateur astronomers, and science fiction fans); many of his talks are available online here
http://larryniven.net/menu/features_menu.shtml. He’s married to the children’s author, Pamela Love (author of this year’s “Brigid and the Butter," “A Loon Alone" and several other books).