Thomas Sanatos

From Halo

Thomas Sanatos is a "scientist" and a "cultural anthropologist of 29 years and [an] avid puzzle breaker," according to what Jonas said about him while conversing, and to the excerpt from Chapter 1, page 2 of Jonas Volman's, "The Castaway Theory" respectively.
Worked together with Jonas Volman for years.
He was the first person that Volman called upon to help him with his research.
He has posted a number of comments in Amazon.com's page for Jonas' book
Regularly has Sunday evening pasta with his wife, thinking of Jonas Volman

Rearranging the first letters of his first and last names results in Somas Thanatos. Soma is the greek word for 'body' and thanatos is the greek word for 'death'.