Roger Frank Malina is an artscience researcher, educator, editor, and astrophysicist. He co-founded the UT Dallas Bass School ArtSciLab and the Center for Emergence Studies, which have enabled close collaboration between scientists and artists, and other hybrid projects that require science of team science methods; developed data performance and transdisciplinary research and apprenticeships; and built an observatory to detect and emergent phenomena at UT Dallas. He is a former NASA principal investigator for the University of California Berkeley Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer satellite, a former CNRS Director at the Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence in Marseille, and is Executive Editor of Leonardo Publications at MIT Press. He holds a BS in Physics from MIT (1972), a PhD in Astronomy from UC Berkeley (1979), and an Honorary Doctorate from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, and the Ars Electronica Golden Nika for collective work through Leonardo.