Michael S. Lubell is the Mark W. Zemansky Professor of Physics at the City College of the City University of New York (CCNY) and Chair of the Aspen Institute Program on Science and Society. He has spent much of his career carrying out research in high-energy nuclear and atomic physics, as well as quantum optics and quantum chaos, and is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society. He is well known in public policy circles for his groundbreaking work in Washington, DC, where he served as director of public affairs of the American Physical Society for more than two decades. He has published more than 250 articles and abstracts in scientific journals and books, and has been a newspaper columnist and opinion contributor for many years. He has been active in local, state, and national politics for half a century, and has lectured widely in the United States and Europe. Navigating the Maze is his first full-length book.