ROY FREDERICK SCHWITTERS

Curriculum Vitae

September 2012

Born: Seattle, Washington

Citizenship: USA

Degrees: S.B., Physics, M.I.T., 1966

Ph.D., Physics, M.I.T., 1971

Professional Employment:

2001 – 2005 Chair, UT Department of Physics

1990 – Present S.W. Richardson Regents Professor of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin

1989 – 1993 Director, SSC Laboratory

1979 – 1990 Professor of Physics, Harvard University

1977 – 1979 Associate Professor, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

1974 – 1977 Assistant Professor, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

1971 – 1974 Research Associate, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Other Professional Activities (Partial List):

2011 – present Member, American Physical Society, Panel on Public Affairs (POPA)

2011 – present Member, LLNL Physical and Life Sciences External Review Committee

2008 – present Member, LLNL Weapons and Complex Integration Directorate Review Committee

1996 – present Member, JASON (Chair of JASON Steering Committee 1994 through 2011)

2008 – present Member, LLNL Weapons and Complex Integration Directorate Review Committee

 

2007 – 2010 Member, LANL Weapons Science and Engineering Capabilities Review Committee, (Chair 2007-2009)

 

2004 – 2010 Member, NNSA Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) Predictive Science Panel

1991 – 1996 Member, International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA)

1989 – 1997 Member, Extended Scientific Council of DESY

1988 – 1991 Member, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources, National Research Council

1987 – 1989 Member, Editorial Advisory Committee, Physics Today

1981 – 1984 Member, High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, U.S. Department of Energy

1981 – 1984 Member, Advisory Committee for Physics, National Science Foundation

1980 – 1983 Divisional Associate Editor for Particles and Fields, Physical Review Letters

1978 – 1989 Associate Editor, Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science

Professional Associations:

Fellow, American Physical Society

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Awards and Honors:

Sigma Xi Award, Stanford University, 1975

Alan T. Waterman Award, National Science Foundation, 1980

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1987

Member, Texas Philosophical Society, 1992

Honorary Doctor of Laws, Southwest Adventist College, 1993

Panofsky Prize, American Physical Society, 1996

Humboldt Research Prize, A. von Humboldt Foundation, 1998