Nicolescu, Basarab: - Basarab Nicolescu (Ploiesti, Romania, 1942) is an honorary theoretical physicist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) at Paris, Professor at the Babes-Bolyai University in Romania, Professor Extraordinary at the School of Public Leadership at Stellenbosch University, in South Africa, member of the Romanian Academy, and President- Founder of the International Center for Transdisciplinary Research and Studies (CIRET). He is a world-renowned figure of transdisciplinarity. His books include: From Modernity to Cosmodernity -- Science, Culture and Spirituality (State University of New York (SUNY) Press, New York, 2014); Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity (State University of New York (SUNY) Press, New York, 2002); and Science, Meaning and Evolution -- The Cosmology of Jacob Boehme (Parabola Books, New York, 1991).