Jonathan Bagger

Jonathan A. Bagger earned his bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics from Dartmouth, a master’s degree from Cambridge, and his PhD from Princeton. After postdoctoral fellowships at SLAC and the IAS in Princeton, he joined the faculty at Harvard and then Johns Hopkins, where he was later appointed Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Physics and Astronomy.

At Hopkins, Dr. Bagger served as Department Chair and as Vice Provost for Graduate and Postdoctoral Programs. In 2014 he was appointed Director of TRIUMF, Canada’s particle accelerator laboratory in Vancouver, and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UBC. He moved back to the United States in 2021 to become Chief Executive Officer of the American Physical Society.

Bagger has twice been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study. He served as chair of the International Linear Collider Steering Committee, as vice chair of the Department of Energy/National Science Foundation High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, and as a member of the National Research Council’s Board on Physics and Astronomy. He has served on the Fermilab Board of Overseers, the SLAC Scientific Policy Committee, the Space Telescope Institute Council, and the Board of Directors of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Bagger’s research centers on high-energy physics at the interface of theory and experiment. Together with Julius Wess, he is the author of the monograph Supersymmetry and Supergravity.

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