Steven Cowley Named Culham Director

Steven Cowley, a professor of theoretical physics at UCLA and Imperial College, will become Director of the UK's Culham Fusion Science Center (formerly called the Culham Laboratory) effective in September, following the retirement of the current director, Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith.

Cowley did his undergraduate degree at Oxford and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He worked at Culham from 1985 through 1987 and subsequently worked at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Imperial College and UCLA.