David Garofalo holds a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park, and currently is professor of physics at Kennesaw State University. After postdoctoral work as a NASA fellow and as a Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and several years of teaching at various California schools including California State University, he moved to Columbia University in New York, where he was a lecturer in the physics department and an adjunct at Fordham University in the Bronx. He is now a faculty member in the department of physics at Kennesaw State University. His research is in black hole astrophysics.