Steven E. Koonin was born in Brooklyn, New York and educated at the
California Institute of Technology, receiving a B.S. in physics in 1972,
and at MIT, where he received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1975.
He
then joined the Caltech faculty in 1975, became full professor in 1981,
serving as Chairman of the Faculty from 1989-1991. Professor Koonin
currently holds the position of Vice President and Provost of the
Institute. Early in his career, he was a research fellow at the Niels
Bohr
Institute from 1976-77 and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow from
1977-79. In 1975-76 he received the Caltech Associated Students Teaching
Award, and the Humboldt Senior Scientist Award in 1985. Koonin has served
on a number of advisory committees for the National Science Foundation,
the
Department of Energy, and the Department of Defense and its various
national laboratories. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society,
the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research interests include theoretical
nuclear, many-body, and computational physics, nuclear astrophysics, and
global environmental science.
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