John LoSecco is a Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame. His research is in the field of elementary particle physics. He received a BS degree in physics from Cooper Union in New York and an AM and PhD degrees from Harvard University. After a postdoc at Harvard University, he held faculty positions at the University of Michigan and Caltech before joining the Notre Dame physics department. He has taught both graduate and undergraduate courses including a popular course on elementary cosmology for non-science majors, which covered Black Holes, Schrodinger's Cat and the Big Bang. His research has been in the areas of neutrino physics, grand unified theories, astrophysics, exotic mesons, CP violation, heavy flavor physics and neutrino oscillations. He helped found the field of astro-particle physics. He is a corecipient of the Bruno Rossi prize in High Energy Astrophysics of the AAS for observation of a six second neutrino burst from a supernova in the Large Magelanic Cloud galaxy and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (UK). He was a Fulbright Scholar at Paris VII and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA) Saclay in 2012-2013.