Academic CV

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BRIEF ACADEMIC CV:

Present positions

• Founding and Senior Faculty member, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
• Adjunct Professor of Physics , University of Waterloo
• Member of the graduate faculty in philosophy, University of Toronto

Education

• B.A. Hampshire College, June 1975
  Concentration: physics and philosophy
  Advisor: Herbert Bernstein
• A.M. Harvard University, March 1978.
• Phd. Harvard University, June 1979, in theoretical physics.
  Advisors: Sidney Coleman and Stanley Deser
  Dissertation: “Studies in quantum gravity”

Employment

• Sept.–Dec. 1979, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, member
• Jan. 1980–Aug. 1981, Institute for Theoretical Physics,UC Santa Barbara, CA, postdoc
• Sept. 1981–July 1983, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, member
• Aug. 1983–Dec. 1984, Enrico Fermi Institute, U. of Chicago, postdoc
• July1984–June 1988, Yale University, ast. professor
• July 1988–April 1991, Syracuse University, assoc prof
• May 1991–July 1993, Syracuse University, professor
• August 1993–Dec 2001, Pennsylvania State University, professor
  Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry
• Sept 2001–present, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, researcher
• Sept. 2001–present, University of Waterloo, Physics Department, adjunct prof.

Visiting positions

• July–Aug. 1980, Nuffield workshop ,Mathematical Institute, Oxford University
• November 1980, Center for Relativity Studies, University of Texas, Austin, TX
• Nov. `81 & March `82, Special year visitor Department of Physics, Univ. of Maryland
• Jan–August 1986, Visiting Research Physicist, ITP, Santa Barbara
• Summer ’88, ’91 & ’92, Visiting Scientist, Trento University, Italy
• May–June 1989, Visiting Scientist, University of Rome, Italy
• April 1993, Visiting Member, ITP, Santa Barbara
• May 1994, Visiting Scientist, Newton Institute, Cambridge University
• June 1994, 1995, 1996, Visiting Lecturer, SISSA, Trieste Italy
• Jan–May 1995, Member, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton
• May 1996, Visiting Scientist, Rockefeller University
• May 1997, Darwin Seminar Visitor, London School of Economics
• April–June 99, Visiting Member, ITP Santa Barbara
• Oct 99–Sept 01, Visiting Professor of Physics, Imperial College
• May 2000, String Theory group, Rutgers University
• 1997–2001 Bios Fellow, Bios Group, Santa Fe, NM
• 1998– , Member, NASA Astrobiology Institute
• 1998– , Associate, Center for the Philosophy of Science, Univ. of Pittsburgh