Dirk Schulze-Makuch (born 1964) is a professor at the Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany and adjunct professor at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences Washington State University, Pullman, Washington. He is best known for his publications on extraterrestrial life, being coauthor of five books on the topic: ''The Cosmic Zoo: Complex Life on Many Worlds'' (2017), ''A One Way Mission to Mars: Colonizing the Red Planet'' (2011), ''We Are Not Alone: Why We Have Already Found Extraterrestrial Life'' (2010), ''Cosmic Biology: How Life could Evolve on Other Worlds'' (2010), and ''Life in the Universe: Expectations and Constraints'' (2004, 2008, 2018). In 2012 he published with David Darling ''Megacatastrophes! Nine Strange Ways the World Could End''. In 2013 he published the second edition of his science fiction novel ''Alien Encounter''. Together with Paul Davies he proposed in 2010 exploration of Mars by a one-way trip to the planet.
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