Dr. SETI On Tour: Who

Who Is Dr. SETI ® ?

Dr. SETI is the stage name of the blatant exhibitionist who inhabits the body of noted author and educator Dr. H. Paul Shuch (rhymes with luck). A cross between Tom Lehrer and Carl Sagan, it is said that Dr. SETI sings like Sagan and lectures like Lehrer. Armed with a laptop computer and an acoustical guitar, Dr. SETI travels the world making the search for life in space accessible to audiences as diverse as humanity itself. You may read Dr. SETI's expanded biography here.

Since the formation of the nonprofit, membership-supported SETI League in 1994, H. Paul Shuch has served as its Executive Director (now emeritus), coordinating its science mission and delivering hundreds of Dr. SETI ® presentations to thousands of enthusiasts, in dozens of countries on six continents. (He'd like to make it a clean sweep, but so far, there's been very little call for lecturing to the penguins.)

At college campuses, science centers, public lecture halls, and on television and radio, Dr. SETI's unique mix of science and song seeks to educate as well as entertain. He compels the listener to contemplate a fundamental question, which has haunted humankind since first we realized that the points of light in the night sky are other suns:

Are We Alone?

H. Paul Shuch, circa 1960
That was then... Dr. SETI's Business Card H. Paul Shuch, circa 2000
...This is now.