Dan Werthimer

Dan Werthimer is co-founder and chief scientist of the SETI@home project and directs other UC Berkeley SETI searches at radio, infrared and visible wavelengths, including the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations. He is also the principal investigator for the worldwide Collaboration for Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronics Research.

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“China has been very interested in the question ‘are we alone?’ For a long time,” says Dan Werthimer of the University of CA, Berkeley. “But until recently there have been few people working on SETI in China.” FAST, now the world’s most powerful radio telescope, could make China the leader in SETI.