Professor Leopold Halpern earned his PhD in Physics in 1952 in Vienna, Austria.

He is a theoretical physicist. Presently, he is a Senior Research Associate at Florida State University in Talahassee, Florida. He also acts as an advisor in the High Frequency Graviton project.

Previously, he was at:

• 1953-1956 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, Fullbright Scholar.
• 1956-1959 Assistant to Professor Schroedinger in Vienna.
• 1959-1960 CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.
• 1960-1961 Institut of Field Physics,University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
• 1961-1962 Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhageen, Denmark.
• 1962-1966 University of Stockholm, Sweden.
• 1966-1968 Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris.
• 1968-1969 University of Windsor, Canada.
• 1969-1973 Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
• 1973-1974 University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• 1974-1985 Florida State University, Senior Research Associate, Assistant to Professor Dirac.
• 1985-1988 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
• 1988- Florida State University.