Newly elected members of the FIP Executive Committee

Cherrill Spencer

Vice-Chair. 4-year “Chair Line” term 2015-2018
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (retired).
APS Member of DPB, FED, FIP, FOEP, FPS, SFW
Spencer was born and educated in England, D.Phil. from Oxford University.

“Physicists and physics educators in the USA can learn a great deal in matters pertaining to physics from colleagues working outside the USA.”

Jason Gardner

Member-at-Large, 2015-2017
Bragg Institute, Australia
APS Member of DCMP, DMP, FIP, GMAG
Born in Liverpool, England, PhD, Warwick University
Fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter

“I believe we can all learn from each other and will encourage the APS to strengthen and broaden its exchange programs. I’ll support endeavors to promote science education, promote the exchange of information and develop personal connections at a global level.”

Aldo Romero

Member-at-Large, 2015-2017
Physics and Astronomy Department, West Virginia University
APS Member of DCMP, DCOMP, DMP, FIP, SMAS
Born in Pamplona, Colombia
PhD at the University of California, San Diego

“One of my goals is to make an effort of involving international graduate and undergraduate students and have a voice of their needs. At the same time, I would like to search for an increase of the number of available exchange programs, additional to the existing ones but focusing on graduate and young researchers. One of the actions that FIP has been involved is to create special grants for international exchange; I think it is important to create those opportunities for third world countries where fewer opportunities are given.”

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