Dr.Doyle was raised along the California coast in the small town of Cambria. He attended San Diego State University and after receiving his Bachelor and Master of Science degrees he workd as an engineer with the Voyager spacecrafts in the Space image Processing Group at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He thereafter received his PhD from the university of Heidelberg in Germany in 1987 on radiative transfer modeling of Saturn's rings using Voyager imaging data. Since 1987 he has been a Principal Investigator with the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California where his main projects have been the photometric detection of extrasolar planets, the application of information theory to animal communications, the ecology of circumstellar habitable zones, and the application of quantum physics to solve certain astronomical problems. Hi is a visiting lecturer at teh University of California, Santa Cruz teaching classes on Life in the universe, and Light & Optics, and has about one hundred referres papers in the scientific literature. He is president of PlanetQuest, a non-profit corporation that brings planet detection capability to the public via an educational scree-saver and browser. He has taught quantum physics, thermodynamics, introductory astronomy, history of science, and Native American history at Principia College in Illinois. He has lectured for the Christian Science Board of Lectureship and is a contributing editor for the Christian Science Sentinel and the Christian Science Journal. He is presently a Member of the Science Team of the NASA Kepler Spacecraft Mission to detect the first habitable planets around other stars, to be launced in March 2009.