Robert Mann is the chair of the physics and astronomy department at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. He did his undergraduate work at McMaster University and obtained his master's degree and doctorate in physics at the University of Toronto. He spent two years as a National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and was a professor at the University of Toronto before moving to the University of Waterloo in 1987, where he became a full professor in 1991. He served as the director of the Guelph Waterloo Physics Institute for two years before becoming chair in 2001. His research interests are in gravitation, cosmology, and particle physics, with particular interests in black hole thermodynamics quantum gravity, particle physics, quantum information, chaotic phenomena, and the relationship between science and religion. He has published more than 200 refereed articles in scientific journals, given more than 150 invited talks, and made several media appearances. He has taught physics at all levels, from high school to graduate school, and taught Sunday school classes on the relationship between science and the Christian faith to all age levels.