# Paul Davies
**Entity class:** Person
**Domain:** theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and astrobiologist
## Definition
**Paul Davies** is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and astrobiologist. At ICE, served on the ICE steering board; spoke at the launching conference and joined the Mystery of Time dialogue.
## Projects, contributions, and institutional alignments
directed Arizona State University’s Beyond Center and worked on cosmology, time, the origin of life, astrobiology, SETI, and foundational physics; his public work includes About Time and The Eerie Silence.
## Relationships
- **ICE role:** [[wiki/Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement|Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement]].
- **wider alignments:** [[wiki/Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science|Beyond Center]], Arizona State University, and [[wiki/Extraterrestrial Intelligence|extraterrestrial intelligence]].
- **disambiguation route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]].
## Sources / Provenance
- [Institutional or primary profile](https://beyond.asu.edu/)
- [ICE archive](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/)