José Francisco Salgado is an Emmy-nominated astronomer (BS in Physics, Univ. of Puerto Rico; PhD in Astronomy, Univ. of Michigan), photographer, visual artist, and public speaker who creates multimedia works that communicate science in engaging ways. He is the Executive Director and co-founder of KV 265, a non-profit science and arts education organization that collaborates with orchestras, composers, and musicians to present films that provoke curiosity and wonder about the Earth and the Universe.

Dr. Salgado has visited more than 30 scientific sites- including the South Pole, the Atacama Desert, the French Pyrenees, and the South African Karoo- and has contributed photography and visuals to documentaries produced for the History, Discovery, BBC, and National Geographic channels. He has also given presentations in all seven continents, including a presentation at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, and worked as an astronomer at Chicago’s Adler Planetarium prior to co-founding KV 265 with astronomer Dr. Geza Gyuk and Anne Barlow.