Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab), has selected Michael R. Pennington as Associate Director for Theoretical and Computational Physics.
Pennington is an internationally known physicist and is currently a professor of Mathematical Sciences and Physics and Dean for Educational Outreach at the Durham University in England. He has also served for several years as a member of JLab’s Program Advisory Committee, a panel of world-leading physicists that reviews and selects experiments to be conducted at the laboratory. Since joining Durham University in 1978, he has held a number of leadership positions.
“I have been an admirer of Jefferson Lab for some time, and it is a great honor for me to have been selected as the laboratory’s next director of theory,” Pennington said. “It’s an especially exciting time to join the lab as it constructs its 12GeV upgrade and prepares for a future of potentially groundbreaking research.”
Pennington will begin his duties at JLab on July 1, succeeding David Richards, who has been serving as the lab’s interim head of theory since October.
