Dr. Thomas Roser

Thomas Roser received his Ph.D. in nuclear physics from the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland, in 1984. Before joining Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1991, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, working on spin effects in high energy elastic proton-proton scattering and acceleration of polarized proton beams. At Brookhaven, he led the commissioning of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the development of polarized proton acceleration, resulting in the first 100 GeV polarized proton collisions in RHIC. He presently serves as Associate Chair for Accelerators at the Collider-Accelerator Department (C-AD) at BNL, with responsibility for the C-AD accelerator complex, including the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). He is a Fellow of APS.