Roger Malina (born July 6, 1950) is an American physicist, astronomer, Executive Editor of Leonardo Publications by Leonardo, the International Society of Arts, Sciences and Technology (published by MIT Press) and distinguished professor of arts and technology, and professor of physics at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Malina obtained his Bachelor of Science in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972, and his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1979.

[1] He was principal investigator for the NASA Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer Satellite at the University of California, Berkeley.

[2] He is also member of the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Study (Institut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées, IMERA),[2] which he has helped to set up[2] and which aims at contributing to interdisciplinarity and which places emphasis on the human dimensions of the sciences.

In 1986, Malina married British Internet content pioneer and educator Christine Maxwell.