Employment
Major Research Areas and Activities
Theoretical Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, including studies of the early universe, neutrino astrophysics, dark matter, dark energy, quantum field theory and gravity, black holes, stellar evolution, nucleosynthesis, eschatology.
Science and Society/Public Policy: Science Education, Science Writing, Public School Science Curricula, Science and Religion, Scientific Integrity in Government, Missile Defense, Nuclear Proliferation, Science and Pseudoscience
Employment
1982-85 Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, and Physics Dept., Harvard University
1985-88 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics, Yale University
1985-86 Visiting Scientist, Boston University
1985-89 Visiting Scientist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
1986-88 Joint Appointment, Department of Physics, and Astronomy, Yale University
1988-1993 Associate Professor, Departments of Physics and Astronomy, Yale University
1993- 2008 Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics and Professor of Astronomy and chair (thru 2005), Dept. of Physics, Case Western Reserve University
1993-2005 Chairman, Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University
2005 Director, Office of Science, Public Policy, and Bio-Entrepreneurship, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
2002-08 Director, Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics
2006-07 Visiting Professor, Vanderbilt University
2008-18 Foundation Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Physics Dept., and Director, Origins Project, Arizona State University
2010-17 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australia National University
2011- Professor, New College of the Humanities, London, UK
2018-19 Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Physics Dept., Arizona State University
2019 President, The Origins Project Foundation
2019 Host, The Origins Podcast
Visiting Positions
CERN associate, 1983
Institute for Theoretical Physics Santa Barbara, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1989,1992, 2002, 2003
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 1984-88
University of Chicago, 1989
Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, 1994
Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 1995, 1996, 1998
Scientific Associate, CERN 1996-97
Institute des Hautes Etudes Scientifique, 1997-98
Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge University, 1999
Perimeter Institute, 2003
Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor, Origins Institute, McMaster University, 2005
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, 2005
Visiting Professor, Vanderbilt University, 2006-7
Visiting Professor, University of Zurich, 2008,2009
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Australian National University, 2010-
James and Jean Davis Prestige Visiting Fellow, Otaga University, 2011
Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, University of Melbourne, 2011
Other Positions
Commentator: Marketplace, All Things Considered
Columnist: Nature Physics, 2005-6
Columnist: New Scientist Magazine, 2007-8
Columnist: Scientific American, 2009-10
Chair: APS Forum on Physics and Society, 2007
Chair: AAAS Physics Section, 2007
APS Panel on Public Affairs, 2009-
Co-Chair: Board of Sponsors, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2009-
Board of Directors: Federation of American Scientists 2010-
Board of Directors of Center for Inquiry 2012-
Physics Editorial Board for the College Access Project 2012-
Executive Committee, APS Forum on Physics and Society 2012-15
Chair, Board of Governors, Australia New Zealand Institute of Theoretical Physics, 2012-2013