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Photo: Stanley J. Brodsky, SLAC HEP Faculty

Stanley J. Brodsky
Professor

E-mail: sjbth@slac.stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 926-2644
Group: Theoretical Physics

Education

B.S., 1961, Physics; Ph.D., 1964, University of Minnesota.

Professional Academic History

Research Associate, Columbia University, 1964-1966; Research Associate, SLAC, Stanford, 1966-1968; Permanent Staff, Theoretical Physics, SLAC, Stanford, 1968-1975; Associate Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1975-1976; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1976-present; Head Theoretical Physics Group, SLAC, 1996-2002.

Awards and Honors

Visiting Professor, Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, 1982; AVCO Visiting Professor, Cornell University, 1985; Foreign Scientific Member and External Scientific Director, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, 1989-present; Alexander von Humboldt Distinguished U.S. Senior Scientist Award, 1987; Fellow, American Physical Society; Associate Editor, Nuclear Physics B and Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplements; Member, Editorial Board, Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics; President and Co-Founder of the International Light-Cone Advisory Committee; International Advisory Committee, International Workshops on Photon-Photon Collisions; Member, Program Advisory Committee, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 2003-2006. Visiting Professor, Physics Department, College of William and Mary, 2003; Distinguished Fellow at the Thomas Jefferson Laboratory, 2003. Member, Program Advisory Committee, Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung mbH (GSI), Darmstadt, Germany 2004-present. Member, Scientific Advisory Board of the Hadron Physics Integrated Infrastructure Initiative of the European Commission, 2006-present. Sackler Lecturer, Tel Aviv University, 2006. Recipient of the 2007 J. J. Sakurai Prize in Theoretical Physics awarded by the American Physical Society.

Research Areas

High-energy theoretical physics, especially the quark-gluon structure of hadrons and novel effects in quantum chromodynamics; fundamental problems in atomic, nuclear, and high energy physics; precision tests of quantum electrodynamics, light-front quantization; nonperturbative and perturbative methods in quantum field theory; applications of AdS/CFT to Quantum Chromodynamics.

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