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Jonathan Dorfan

Professor (Emeritus)
Particle Physics and Astrophysics

Professional Academic History

Research Associate, University of California, 1971-1976; Postdoctoral Fellow, SLAC, Stanford, 1976-78; Research Physicist, SLAC, Stanford, 1981-1984; Associate Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1984-1989; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1989-present; Associate Director of PEP-II, SLAC, 1994-1999; Director of SLAC, 1999-2007; President, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Graduate University-Japan, 2010-present; Emeritus Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 2012-present.

Areas of Interest and Research

Experimental particle physics and accelerator design.

Education

B.S., 1969, Physics and Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Ph.D., 1976, University of California, Irvine.

Awards & Honors

Member, Executive Board of Division of Particles and Fields, American Physical Society, 1990-1993; Member, High-Energy Physics Advisory Panel, 1991-1994. Fellow, American Association of Arts and Sciences; Fellow, American Physical Society; Member, New York Academy of Sciences; Chair, International Committee on Future Accelerators, 2003-present; Chair, U.S. Linear Collider Steering Group, 2002-present; Member, International Linear Collider Steering Committee, 2002-present.

Links

Accelerator Physics
Jonathan Dorfan Stanford Profile
Jonathan M. Dorfan

Contact

jonathan.dorfan@slac.stanford.edu
(650) 926-5362 (telephone)

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2575 Sand Hill Road MS 29
Menlo Park, CA 94025
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