''Dr. John E. Brandenburg PHD" is a plasma physicist based in Southern California working as a consultant at Kepler Aerospace LLC on Unified Field Theory on space propulsion and energy and on the Mach Effect Thruster Project funded by the Space Studies Institute.

Before this he worked for Morningstar Applied Physics LLC and as a part-time instructor of Astronomy, Physics and Mathematics Madison College and other learning institutions in Madison Wisconsin. He, before this, worked at Orbital Technologies in Madison Wisconsin, working on space plasma technologies, nuclear fusion, and advanced space propulsion.

He is the principle inventor of the MET (Microwave Electro-Thermal) plasma thruster using water propellant for space propulsion.

He has previously worked on SDI, the Clementine Mission to the Moon, Rocket Plume-Regolith
Interactions on the Moon and Mars, Vortex theory of Rocket engine design, combined Sakharov- Kaluza-Klein theory of Field Unification for purposes of space propulsion and Mars science. He also performed an architecture study for a Human Mars Mission using solar electric propulsion. Before coming to ORBITEC he was teaching and performing research at the Florida Space Institute of the University of Central Florida, at Aerospace Corporation in Chantilly Va., and earlier at Research Support Instruments (RSI) in Lanham Maryland.

During the Reagan years he worked at Mission Research Corporation and Sandia National Laboratories on SDI and plasmas for controlled fusion and directed energy weapons. He earned his PhD in Plasma Physics at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory while working on controlled fusion and a Bachelors’ degree in Physics at Southern Oregon University. He has authored the technical book “The GEM Unification Theory, Extending the Standard Model to Include Graviation” (2016) and the popular science books “Death on Mars” (2015) “Life and Death on Mars” (2010), “Beyond Einstein’s Unified Field” (2011) and “Dead Mars, Dying Earth” (1999) with Monica Rix Paxson.

He has written several science fiction novels under the pen name including “Victor Norgarde”:
beginning with “Morningstar Pass, The collapse of the UFO Coverup”,

“Morningstar UFO Trilogy”, and the novel “Asteroid 20-2012 Sepulveda”

Dr. J has also written a book on metaphysics, called “Cosmic Jesus: The Metaphysics of How the God of Israel Became the God of the Cosmos” Please check out his book called America At Armageddon; An astonishing new interpretation of the USA in the end times.

He is the recipient of the William Gerald Award in 2006 from the Harlem Children Society for
his work with underprivileged students, the 2012 Devi Bhargava Award at Madison College
for working with students with disabilities and the 2014 TRiO Staff and Faculty Appreciation
Award for Effort, Care, and Encouragement of First Generation, Underprivileged, and
Disabled Students.