Past KITP Advisory Board Members

Laurence F. Abbott
Brandeis University
(September 1995 -- August 1998)

Elihu Abrahams (*deceased)
Rutgers University
(September 1982 -- August 1985)

Eric G. Adelberger
University of Washington
(September 1996 -- August 1999)

Philip Anderson (*deceased)
Princeton University
(September 1982 -- August 1985)

Philip Armitage 

University of Colorado (now at SUNY Stony Brook)
(September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2014)

Lloyd Armstrong (past Chairperson: 1994-1995)
University of Southern California
(September 1992 -- August 1996)

Jonathan Arons
University of California, Berkeley
(September 1988 -- August 1991)

Thomas Banks
Rutgers University
(September 1997 -- August 2000)

James Bardeen (*deceased)
University of Washington
(September 1981 -- August 1984)

Gordon Baym
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(September 1979 -- August 1983)

Rachel Bean
Cornell University
(September 2014 -- August 2017)

Malcolm Beasley
Stanford University
(September 1990 -- August 1993)

Mitchell Craig Begelman
JILA - University of Colorado
(September 1, 2008 -- August 31, 2011)

R. Stephen Berry (*deceased)
University of Chicago
(September 1989 -- August 1992)

George Bertsch
Michigan State University
(September 1979 -- August 1981)

Hans Bethe (*deceased)
Cornell University
(September 1981 -- August 1984)

William Bialek (past Chairperson: 2005-2006)
Princeton University
(September 1, 2004 -- August 31, 2008)

James D. Bjorken
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
(September 1983 -- September 1986)

Roger Blandford
California Institute of Technology (now at Stanford University)
(September 1985 -- August 1988)

Richard Blankenbecler (past Chairperson: 1982-1983)
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
(September 1979 -- August 1984)

Immanuel Bloch
Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
(September 2013 -- August 2016)

Eberhard Bodenschatz  (past Chairperson: 2010-2011)
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics
(September 2008 -- August 2012)

J. Richard Bond
Canadian Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA)
(September 2006 -- August 2009)

David Boulware (past Chairperson: 1989-1990)
University of Washington
(September 1987 -- August 1991)

Patrick Brady
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
(September 2020 -- August 2023)

Michael Brenner
Harvard University
(September 2006 -- August 2009)

Adam Burrows (past Chairperson: 2006-2007)
Princeton University
(September 2004 -- August 2008)

Curtis Callan
Princeton University
(September 1990 -- August 1993)

David Ceperley
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(September 1991 -- August 1994)

Paul Chaikin 
Princeton University (now at NYU)
(September 1993 -- August 1996)

Bulbul Chakraborty (past Chairperson: 2014-2015)
Brandeis University
(September 2012 -- August 2016)

S. Chandrasekhar (*deceased)
University of Chicago
(September 1979 -- August 1981)

Sterling Colgate (*deceased)
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
(September 1982 -- August 1985)

Susan Coppersmith (past Chairperson: 1999-2000)
James Franck/Univ. of Chicago
(Sepember 1997 -- August 2001)

J. M. Cornwall (past Chairperson: 1981-1982)
University of California, Los Angeles
(September 1979 -- August 1983)

Leticia Cugliandolo
Sorbonne University
(September 2020 -- August 2023)

Mirjam Cvetic (past Chairperson: 2009-2010)
University of Pennsylvania
(September 2007 -- August 2011)

Alexander Dalgarno (*deceased)
Harvard University
(September 1985 -- August 1988)

Roger Dashen (*deceased)
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
(September 1979 -- August 1983)

Sankar Das Sarma (past Chairperson: 2008-2009)
University of Maryland
(September 2006 -- August 2010)

Marc Davis
University of California, Berkeley
(September 1994 -- August 1995)

John Dawson (*deceased)
University of California, Los Angeles
(September 1984 -- August 1987)

Sally Dawson
Brookhaven National Laboratory
(September 2006 -- August 2009)

Stanley Deser (past Chairperson: 1993-1994; *deceased)
Brandeis University
(September 1991 -- August 1995)

Savas Dimopoulos
Stanford University
(September 2007 -- August 2010)

Michael Dine
University of California, Santa Cruz
(September 2000 -- August 2003)

Lance Dixon (past Co-Chairperson: 2019-2020)
Stanford University/SLAC
(September 2017 -- August 2021)

Sebastian Doniach
Stanford University
(September 1986 -- August 1989)

Michael R. Douglas
State University of New York
(September 2011 -- August 2013)

Robert C. Dynes
University of California, San Diego
(September 1985 -- August 1988)

Douglas M. Eardley
Harvard University (now at UC Santa Barbara)
(September 1979 -- August 1983)

Joseph Eberly
University of Rochester
(September 1999 -- August 2002)

James P. Eisenstein
California Institute of Technology
(September 2009 -- August 2012)

Michael Elowitz
California Institute of Technology
(September 2009 -- August 2012)

Leo Falicov (*deceased)
University of California, Berkeley
(September 1993 -- August 1995)

Mitchell Feigenbaum (*deceased)
Rockefeller University
(September 1985 -- August 1988)

Jonathan L. Feng (past Co-Chairperson: 2012-2013)
University of California, Irvine
(September 2010 -- August 2014)

Herman Feshbach (*deceased)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(September 1979 -- August 1982)

Ila Fiete (past Co-Chairperson: 2017-2018)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(September 2015 -- August 2019)

Daniel Fisher (past Chairperson: 1990-1991)
Harvard University (now at Stanford University)
(September 1988 -- August 1992)

Michael Fisher (*deceased)
University of Maryland
(September 1992 -- August 1995)

Eanna Flanagan
Cornell University
(September 2007 -- August 2010)

Katherine Freese
University of Michigan
(September 2000 -- August 2003)

Edward A. Frieman (*deceased)
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
(September 1986 -- August 1989)

Mary K. Gaillard
University of California, Berkeley
(September 1985 -- August 1988)

Sylvester J. Gates
University of Maryland
(September 2000 -- August 2003)

Murray Gell-Mann (*deceased)
California Institute of Technology
(September 1979 -- August 1981)

Frederick J. Gilman
University of Texas, Austin
(September 1988 -- August 1991)

Steven M. Girvin (past Chairperson: 1997-1998)
Indiana University (now at Yale)
(September 1995 -- August 1999)

Peter Goldreich
Caltech
(September 1993 -- August 1996)

Jeremy Goodman
Princeton
(September 1998 -- August 2001)

Mark Goulian
University of Pennsylvania
(September 2006 -- August 2009)

John M. Greene
General Atomic Technologies, Inc.
(September 1988 -- August 1991)

Laura H. Greene
University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign
(September 2002 -- August 2005)

Gary Grest
Sandia National Laboratory
(September 2000 -- August 2003)

Robert B. Griffiths
Carnegie-Mellon University
(September 1987 -- August 1990)

David Gross (past Chairperson: 1985-1986)
Princeton University (now at KITP)
(September 1983 -- August 1987)

Lawrence J. Hall
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
(September 2004 -- August 2007)

Bertrand Halperin (past Chairperson: 1987-1988)
Harvard University
(September 1985 -- August 1989)

James B. Hartle (*deceased)
University of California, Santa Barbara
(September 1979 -- August 1981)

Jeffrey Harvey (past Chairperson: 1995-1996)
Enricro Fermi Institute
(September 1993 -- August 1997)

Matt Hastings
UW/Microsoft
(September 2015 -- August 2018)

Wick Haxton
University of Washington
(September 1993 -- August 1996)

Eric Heller
Harvard University
(September 1994 -- August 1997)

Lars Hernquist
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
(September 1999 -- August 2002)

JoAnne Hewett
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
(September 2013 -- August 2016)

Pierre Hohenberg (past Chairperson: 1991-1992, *deceased)
Yale University
(September 1989 -- August 1994)

John Hopfield
California Institute of Technology
(September 1983 -- August 1986)

Veronika Hubeny (past Co-Chairperson: 2018-2019)
University of California, Davis
(September 2016 -- August 2020)

Terence Hwa
UCSD
(September 2003 -- August 2006)

Francesco Iachello
Yale University
(September 1989 -- August 1992)

Theodore A. Jacobson
University of Maryland
(September 2001 -- August 2004)

Craig James Hogan
University of Chicago
(September 2009 -- August 2012)

Barbara Jones
IBM Almaden Research Center
(September 1999 -- August 2002)

Shamit Kachru
Stanford University
(September 2014 -- August 2017)

Leo Kadanoff (*deceased)
University of Chicago
(September 1979 -- August 1981)

Catherine Kallin
McMaster University
(September 1996 -- August 1999)

Randall Kamien
University of Pennsylvania
(September 2009 -- August 2012)

Mehran Kardar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(September 2017 -- August 2020)

Charles Kane
University of Pennsylvania
(September 2013 -- August 2017)

Hugh Kelly (*deceased)
J.W. Beams Laboratory of Physics
(September 1988 -- August 1991)

Charles Kennel
University of California, Los Angeles
(September 1987 -- August 1990)

Steven Kivelson
Stanford University
(September 2006 -- August 2009)

Igor Klebanov (past Co-Chairperson: 2010-2011)
Princeton University
(September 2008 -- August 2012)

Juna Kollmeier (past Co-Chairperson: 2021-2022)
Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science
(September 2019 -- August 2023)

Jané Kondev
Brandeis University
(September 2018 -- August 2021)

Steve E. Koonin (past Chairperson: 1988-1989)
California Institute for Technology
(September 1986 -- August 1990)

Martin Kruskal (*deceased)
Princeton University
(September 1981 -- August 1984)

Paul Kushner (past Chairperson: 2020-2021)
University of Toronto
(September 2018 -- August 2022)

Neal Lane
Rice University
(September 2004 -- August 2007)

Joel Lebowitz
Rutgers University
(September 1984 -- August 1987)

Patrick Lee
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(September 1992 -- August 1995)

Luis Lehner (past Chairperson: 2018-2019)
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
(September 2016 -- August 2020)

G. Peter LePage
Cornell University
(September 1995 -- August 1998)

Anthony Leggett
University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign
(September 1983 -- August 1986)

Stanislas Leibler
The Rockefeller University
(September 2000 -- August 2003)

Kathryn Levin
University of Chicago
(September 1991 -- August 1994)

Andrea J. Liu
University of Pennsylvania
(September 2003 -- August 2006)

Thomas C. Lubensky
University of Pennsylvania
(September 1997 ­-- August 2000)

Mikhail Lukin
Harvard University
(September 2008 -- August 2011)

Joseph D. Lykken
Fermi National Accelerator Lab
(September 2003 -- August 2006)

John P. McTague (*deceased)
Ford Motor Co.
(September 1996 ­-- August 1999)

Allan H. MacDonald
University of Texas, Austin
(September 2003 -- August 2006)

Piero Madau
UCSC
(September 2003 -- August 2006)

Juan M. Maldacena
Institute for Advanced Study
(September 2017 -- August 2020)

Cristina Marchetti (past Chairperson: 2003-2004)
Syracuse University (now at UC Santa Barbara)
(September 2002 -- August 2005)

John Bradley Marston (past Chairperson: 2012-2013)
Brown University
(September 2010 -- August 2014)

Paul Martin (past Chairperson: 1979-1980, *deceased)
Harvard University
(September 1979 -- August 1983)

William Marciano
Brookhaven National Laboratory
(September 1992 -- August 1995)

Christopher McKee
University of California, Berkeley
(September 2002 -- August 2005)

David Mermin
Cornell University
(September 1986 -- August 1989)

Pierre Meystre
University of Arizona
(September 2002 -- August 2005)

Andrew Millis (past Chairperson: 2001-2002)
Rutgers University (now at Columbia)
(September 1999 -- August 2003)

Peter Milonni
Los Alamos National Lab
(September 1996 ­-- August 1999)

Shiraz Minwalla
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
(September 2020 -- August 2023)

Ernest Moniz
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(September 1987 -- August 1990)

Gregory Moore
Yale University
(September 1994 -- August 1997)

Joel Moore (past Chairperson: 2019-2020)
University of California, Berkeley
(September 2017 -- August 2021)

Ben Mottelson (*deceased)
NORDITA
(September 1984 -- August 1987)

Alfred Mueller
Columbia University
(September 1986 -- August 1989)

Richard Muller
University of California, Berkeley
(September 1982 -- August 1985)

Margaret Murnane
JILA
(September 2006 -- August 2009)

Venkatesh Murthy
Harvard University
(September 2019 -- August 2022)

Robert Myers (past Co-Chairperson: 2014-2015)
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
(September 2012 -- August 2016)

Ramesh Narayan (past Chairperson: 1996-1997)
Harvard University
(September 1994 -- August 1998)

Michael Nauenberg (*deceased)
University of California, Santa Cruz
(September 1979 -- August 1982)

John W. Negele (past Chairperson: 1984-1985)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(September 1982 -- August 1986)

Ann Nelson (*deceased)
University of Washington
(September 1995 -- August 1998)

David Nelson
Harvard University
(September 1994 -- August 1997)

Angela V. Olinto
University of Chicago
(September 2011 -- August 2014)

Peter Olson
Johns Hopkins University
(September 2015 -- August 2018)

Thomas O'Neil
University of California, San Diego
(September 1983 -- August 1986)

Hirosi Ooguri
Caltech
(September 2005 -- August 2008)

Eve Ostriker
University of Maryland (now at Princeton University)
(September 2008 -- August 2011)

Rosalba Perna
Stony Brook University
(September 2018 -- August 2021)

Michael Peskin (past Chairperson: 2000-2001)
SLAC
(September 1998 -- August 2002)

Philip Wirth Phillips (past Co-Chairperson: 2011-2012)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

(September 2009 -- August 2013)

E. Sterl Phinney
California Institute of Technology
(September 1990 -- August 1993)

Alexander Pines
University of California, Berkeley
(September 1992 -- August 1995)

David Pines (*deceased)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(September 1979 -- August 1982)

William Press (past Chairperson: 1986-1987)
Harvard College Observatory
(September 1984 -- August 1988)

Frans Pretorius
Princeton University
(September 2013 -- August 2016)

Jorge Pullin
Louisiana State University
(September 2004 -- August 2007)

Helen Quinn (past Chairperson: 1983-1984)
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
(September 1981 -- August 1985)

Leo Radzihovsky
University of Colorado
(September 2013 -- August 2017)

Lisa Randall
MIT (now at Harvard)
(September 1998 -- August 2001)

Frederic A. Rasio (past Chairperson: 2016-2017)
Northwestern University
(September 2015 -- August 2018)

Ana Maria Rey (past Co-Chairperson: 2020-2021)
University of Colorado
(September 2018 -- August 2022)

Mark Robbins (past Chairperson: 2007-2008, *deceased)
Johns Hopkins University
(September 2005 -- August 2009)

Jonathan Rosner
University of Chicago
(September 1991 -­- August 1994)

Malvin Ruderman
Columbia University
(September 1979 -- August 1982)

Subir Sachdev (past Chairperson: 2004-2005)
Harvard University
(September 2002 -- August 2006)

J. R. Schrieffer (past Chairperson: 1980-1981, *deceased)
University of California, Santa Barbara
(September 1979 -- August 1982)

Ramamurti Shankar

Yale University

(September 2010 -- August 2013)

Nathan Seiberg
Institute for Advanced Study
(September 2002 -- August 2005)

Sebastian Seung
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (now at Princeton University)
(September 2008 -- August 2011)

Stephen Shenker
Rutgers University (now at Stanford University)
(September 1987 -- August 1990)

Mikhail Shifman
University of Minnesota
(September 2001-- August 2004)

Eric Siggia
Rockefeller University
(September 1997 -- August 2000)

Eva Silverstein
SLAC
(September 2004 -- August 2007)

Isadore Singer (*deceased)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(September 1982 -- August 1985)

Sara Solla
Northwestern University
(September 2005 -- August 2008)

David N. Spergel (past Chairperson: 1998-1999)
Princeton University
(September 1996 -- August 2000)

Paul Steinhardt (past Chairperson: 1992-1993)
University of Pennsylvania (now at Princeton)
(September 1990 -- September 1994)

Charles Stevens (*deceased)
The Salk Institute
(September 1998 -- August 2004)

David Stevenson
Caltech
(September 2001 -- August 2004)

James Stone
Princeton University (now at IAS)
(September 2005 -- August 2008)

Andrew Strominger (past Chairperson: 2002-2003)
Harvard University
(September 2000 -- August 2004)

Ravindra Sudan (*deceased)
Cornell University
(September 1991 -- August 1994)

Tim Tait
University of California, Irvine
(September 2019 -- August 2022)

Saul A. Teukolsky
Cornell University
(September 1995 -- August 1998)

Scott Thomas
Rutgers University
(September 2014 -- August 2017)

Kip Thorne
California Institute of Technology
(September 1979 -- August 1981)

David Thouless (*deceased)
University of Washington
(September 1989 -- August 1992)

Scott Tremaine
University of Toronto (now at Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
(September 1988 -- August 1991)

Nandini Trivedi
The Ohio State University
(September 1, 2016 -- August 31, 2019)

Mark Trodden
University of Pennsylvania
(September 1, 2017 -- August 31, 2020)

Sandra M. Troian
California Institute of Technology
(September 2007 -- August 2010)

Cumrum Vafa
Harvard University
(September 1997 -- August 2000)

Roser Valentí (past Chairperson: 2021-2022)
Goethe University Frankfort
(September 2019 -- August 2023)

Pedro Vieira
Perimeteter Institute for Theoretical Physics
(September 2020 -- August 2023)

Robert Wald
Fermi Inst./Univ. of Chicago
(September 1998 -- August 2001)

J. Dirk Walecka
CEBAF, Newport News, VA
(September 1990 -- August 1993)

Lian-Tao Wang
University of Chicago
(September 1, 2016 -- August 31, 2019)

Risa Wechsler (past Chairperson: 2017-2018)
Stanford University
(September 1, 2015 -- August 31, 2019)

Steven Weinberg (*deceased)
University of Texas, Austin
(September 1983 -- August 1986)

K. Birgitta Whaley (past Chairperson: 2016-2017)
University of California, Berkeley
(September 2015 -- August 2018)

Steven White
University of California, Irvine
(September 2018 -- August 2021)

Carl Wieman
University of Colorado
(September 1999 -- August 2002)

Frank Wilczek
Institute for Advanced Studies
(September 1989 -- August 1992)

Ned Wingreen
Princeton University
(September 1, 2016 -- August 31, 2019)

Mark Wise
California Institute of Technology
(September 1992 -- August 1995)

Thomas Witten
University of Chicago
(September 1994 -- August 1997)

Stanford Woosley
University of California, Santa Cruz
(September 1991 -- August 1994)

Peter Zoller
Inst. für Theoretische Physik
(September 2005 -- August 2008)

Bruno Zumino (*deceased)
University of California, Berkeley
(September 1984 -- August 1987)

Ellen G. Zweibel
University of Colorado (now at University of Wisconsin-Madison)
(September 1996 -- August 1999)