Roberto Peccei

Professor and Former UCLA Vice Chancellor for Research
Department: Department of Physics and Astronomy

4-945 PAB
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547
Tel: (310) 825-4935
peccei@physics.ucla.edu
Personal Website

Education

B.S. in Physics, MIT, June 1962
M.S. in Physics, NYU, June 1964
Ph.D. in Physics, MIT, June 1969

Professional Experience

Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Washington (1969-71)
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Stanford University (1971-78)
Staff Member, Max Planck Institut für Physik und Astrophysik, Munich (1978-1984)
Head, Theory Group, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Hamburg (1984-1989)
Professor, Fachbereich Physik, Universität Hamburg (1987-89)
Professor, Department of Physics, UCLA (1989- )
Chairman, Department of Physics, UCLA (1989-1993)
Dean, Division of Physical Sciences, UCLA (1993-2001)
Interim Vice Chancellor for Research, UCLA (2000)
Vice Chancellor for Research, UCLA (2000- 2010)

Honors and Awards

Member, Sigma Xi, since 1971
Schroedinger Professor, University of Vienna, 1983
Member, Club of Rome, (1984 - )
Boris Jacobsohn Lecturer, University of Washington, 1986
Fellow, American Physical Society, (1987- )
Phi Beta Kappa Lecturer, UCLA, 1992
Emilio Segre Professor, University of Tel Aviv, 1992
1st Abdus Salam Memorial Lecture, Pakistan, 1997
Fellow, Institute of Physics, United Kingdom, (1999- )
Commendatore, Italy, 2002
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, (2007-)
Member, Executive Committee, Club of Rome (2007 - )
Fellow, World Academy of Arts and Sciences, (2008- )