The American Physical Society’s Board of Directors has appointed Robert Rosner as editor in chief.
As the editor in chief, Rosner will serve on the Board of Directors, chair the Committee on Scientific Publications, and provide governance oversight of the Society’s research publications.
The American Physical Society is a nonprofit membership organization working to advance physics by fostering a vibrant, inclusive, and global community dedicated to science and society. APS represents more than 50,000 members, including physicists in academia, national laboratories, and industry in the United States and around the world.
Rosner, the 2023 APS president, is a distinguished theoretical physicist who has been on the faculty of the University of Chicago since 1987, where he is currently the William E. Wrather Distinguished Service Professor. His appointments span the physics department and astronomy and astrophysics department, as well as the Enrico Fermi Institute and Harris School of Public Policy.
Rosner brings extensive leadership experience to the role. He served as Argonne National Laboratory’s chief scientist and associate laboratory director for physical, biological, and computational sciences from 2002 to 2005, and then as laboratory director from 2005 to 2009. He was the founding chair of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Laboratory Directors Council.
Rosner’s scientific contributions primarily focus on fluid dynamics, plasma physics, computational physics, and applied mathematics. He has also worked extensively on energy technologies and policy and co-founded the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago.
Rosner is a Fellow of APS, as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
— Adapted from original post by the American Physical Society