Michael Guillen was born in East Los Angeles, earned his BS from UCLA and his MS and 3D PhD from Cornell University in physics, mathematics, and astronomy. For eight years he was an award-winning physics instructor at Harvard University.
For fourteen years he was the Emmy-award-winning Science Editor for ABC News, appearing regularly on Good Morning America, 20/20, Nightline, and World News Tonight. Dr. Guillen is the host of the History Channel series Where Did It Come From?; producer of the award-winning family movie Little Red Wagon; and host of the popular, weekly podcast series Science+God, operated by K-LOVE and Air1 Radio.
Dr. Guillen has written op eds for many, influential media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, and Fox News.
He is a popular speaker worldwide and the best-selling author of Bridges to Infinity: The Human Side of Mathematics; Five Equations That Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics; Can a Smart Person Believe in God?; Amazing Truths: How Science and the Bible Agree; The Null Prophecy; and The End of Life As We Know It: Ominous News From the Frontiers of Science. His newest book is Believing is Seeing: A Physicist Explains How Science Shattered His Atheism and Revealed the Necessity of Faith (Tyndale, 2021), an Amazon #1 Best Seller.
Dr. Guillen runs an all-media production company, Spectacular Science Productions, and is co-founder and principal partner of Accelarise Media.