Roberto Peccei

Roberto D. Peccei is a particle theorist whose principal interests lie in the area of electroweak interactions and in the interface between particle physics and cosmology.

Peccei was born in Italy, completed his secondary school in Argentina, and came to the United States in 1958. He obtained a B.S. from MIT in 1962, and M.S. from NYU in 1964 and a Ph.D. from MIT in 1969. Postdoc: University of Washington.

• 1971 Faculty, Stanford University.
• 1978 Staff member, Max Planck Institute, Munich, Germany.
• 1984 Head of the Theoretical Group, Deutsches Elektron Synchrotron (DESY) Laboratory in Hamburg.
• 1989 Faculty, later Chair, Department of Physics, UCLA.
• 1993 Dean, Division of Physical Sciences of the College of Letters and Sciences, UCLA.
• 2000 Vice Chancellor for Research, UCLA