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Dr. Neil Turok Appointed Executive Director of Perimeter Institute
WATERLOO, May 9 /CNW-AsiaNet/ --
The Board of Directors of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical
Physics (PI) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Neil Turok to the
position of Executive Director. The appointment, effective October 1st, comes
with the unanimous endorsement of the Institute's Board following an
extensive search and the unanimous recommendation of the Search Committee
composed of Perimeter Institute researchers, members of its international
Scientific Advisory Committee and members of the Institute's Board of
Directors.
Mike Lazaridis, the founder of Perimeter Institute and Chairman of the
Board, personally led the successful search and says, "We are extremely
pleased to welcome Professor Turok to Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He is a
world-renowned scientist of the highest calibre and provides tremendous
research and leadership experience. He is ideally suited to build upon
Perimeter Institute's considerable international achievements to date in
scientific research and educational outreach as we move forward in our next,
ambitious phase of development."
Commenting on his appointment, Dr. Turok says, "I am thrilled and
honored to serve as the next Executive Director of Perimeter Institute, or
PI. The Institute's innovative approach, its flexibility and its
determination to tackle the most basic questions are already attracting the
world's most brilliant students and researchers to Canada. Working with the
excellent PI team, I hope to strengthen these developments so that PI becomes
a world epicenter for theoretical physics, catalysing major scientific
breakthroughs."
Professor Stephen Hawking, the internationally acclaimed scientist at
the University of Cambridge and a close colleague of Dr. Turok, says, "Neil
Turok will make an excellent Director of the Perimeter Institute which has
established itself as a world leading center of research in theoretical
physics. He has been a colleague of mine for a number of years and I have
been very impressed by his insight and originality. The combination of Neil
and PI is brilliant and holds great promise for the future."
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SOURCE Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
CONTACT: John Matlock,
Director of External Relations and Outreach,
at jmatlock@perimeterinstitute.ca
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