Since 2005, Dr. Poltorak has written the Quantum Torah^® blog, exploring parallels between Torah, science, and philosophy. He has authored original commentaries on nearly every Torah portion and Jewish holiday, as well as essays in Jewish theology.

Dr. Alexander Poltorak was born in 1957 in the former U.S.S.R. and developed an early fascination with physics. As a teenager, he independently explored ideas later associated with doubly special relativity (framing a second universal constant—the maximum energy density) and black-hole physics; sketched toy models in which particles behave like vibrating strings; proposed a five-dimensional extension of Minkowski spacetime with energy as a fifth coordinate (akin to Kaluza–Klein theory); and investigated discrete spacetime and hypercomplex numbers. In 10th grade he shared first prize at the All-Union Science Conference of Students (a national science competition) and completed the Correspondence School for Physics and Mathematics at Moscow State University. He earned an M.S. in theoretical and mathematical physics from Kuban State University (1980). His dissertation proposed a solution to the long-standing energy problem in general relativity and was recommended for a doctoral degree, but owing to dissident activity it was not confirmed. After marrying Valeria, a biophysicist he met at a science conference, they discovered G-d—and found Him revealed in science. In 1982 they emigrated to the United States.

In the U.S., Dr. Poltorak held an appointment as Assistant Professor of Biomathematics in the Department of Neurology at Cornell University Medical College, conducting brain research. He later served as Assistant Professor of Physics at Touro College, where he also taught Jewish philosophy, and as Adjunct Professor of Physics at The City College of New York, where he is currently a research fellow at the Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers. He also served as U.S. Co-Chair of a subcommittee on Information Exchange at the U.S.–U.S.S.R. Trade and Economic Council. Alongside his academic career, in 1983 Dr. Poltorak founded Rapitech Systems, an early AI and computer-technology company that he took public on NASDAQ in 1986. He subsequently built General Patent Corporation into a prominent intellectual-property firm and founded the idea incubator Ydea Lab.

Dr. Poltorak co-authored several Wiley volumes: Essentials of Intellectual Property (2002), Essentials of Licensing Intellectual Property (2003), Essentials of Intellectual Property: Law, Economics, and Strategy (2011). Returning to neuroscience, he published work on the possibility of transplanting brain states and continues this research as founder of NeuroLight, Inc., developing neuromodulation technologies aimed at preventing Alzheimer’s disease. He also writes in philosophy of religion. He is the author of A Light Unto My Path: A Mezuzah Anthology and numerous essays on Jewish thought, with op-eds in The Hill, The American Spectator, and The Washington Times. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, and he was profiled by The New York Times (June 10, 2002). He has been the subject of a documentary produced by Tokyo Channel 12 and has been interviewed by CNN, Bloomberg TV, CBS, Reuters, and other major media outlets.

Through Quantum Torah, Dr. Poltorak continues to illuminate the connections between divine wisdom and modern physics, showing that Torah and science are complementary paths to understanding our universe.