Harold (Hal) Puthoff, PhD, is President, CEO and Chairman of the Board of EarthTech International, Inc., and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin. Earning his PhD from Stanford University in 1967 as a theoretical and experimental physicist specializing in lasers, his present research activities range from theoretical studies concerning fundamental electrodynamics, gravitation, and the quantum vacuum to laboratory studies of innovative approaches to energy generation and space propulsion.

With a professional background spanning decades of research at General Electric, Sperry, the National Security Agency, Stanford University and SRI International, Dr. Puthoff has a publication stream in Tier-1 physics journals on electron-beam devices, lasers, quantum vacuum energy physics, general relativity models and space propulsion, is co-author of a graduate-level textbook Fundamentals of Quantum Electronics published in English, French, Russian and Chinese, and has patents issued in the laser, communications and energy fields. Dr. Puthoff regularly serves various foundations, corporations, NASA, and the DoD and intelligence communities as advisor on leading-edge technologies and future technology trends, and his awards and honors include a DoD Certificate of Commendation from NSA for his work on high-speed opto-electronic computers.

Dr. Puthoff is a member of several professional organizations, including AFIO (Assoc. of Former Intelligence Officers), is listed in such biographical reference works as Who’s Who in the World, and has been designated a Fetzer Fellow (1991) and a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society (2012).