Educational History
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard College Observatory (1976-1978)
- PhD, Physics, Harvard University (1976)
- BA, Physics, Brandeis University (1969)
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Top Five Honors, Awards, or Recognition
- Fellow, American Physical Society
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
- Foreign Member, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- Gordon Bell Prize (Supercomputing 2000)
- Rothschild Visiting Professor, Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Univ. of Cambridge
Most Recent APS Volunteer History
- Member, Vice Chair and Chair, APS Panel on Public Affairs
- Member, APS Physics Policy Committee
Membership in Other Societies
- American Astronomical Society (AAS)
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- American Nuclear Society (ANS)
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Other Relevant Experience
- Chair, Dept. of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Chicago
- Chief Scientist, Associate Laboratory Director, and Director, Argonne National Laboratory
- Founding Chair, DOE National Laboratory Directors’ Council
- Chair, Science and Security Board, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Elected member of Helmholtz Gemeinschaft Senate
- Member of Council of American Academy of Arts & Sciences (to 2019)
- Member and/or chair of various U.S. and European advisory committees, including LANL Capability Review of Nuclear Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology, and Particle Physics (chair); LLNS NIF Management Advisory Committee (MAC) (member); Technical Advisory Committee, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE), Univ. of Rochester (member); NAS Committee on Nuclear Forensics (chair); Strategic Research Advisory Board of Austrian Institute of Technology (chair)