B2 Board of Advisors

Pierre Meystre

Director, B2 Institute; Regents' Professor, Physics and Optical Sciences, The University of Arizona

Pierre Meystre obtained his Physics Diploma and doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne in 1971 and 1974, respectively, and the Habilitation in Theoretical Physics from the University of Munich in 1983. He joined the Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in 1977, following a postdoctoral position with M.O. Scully at The University of Arizona. In 1986, he returned to the UA where he is currently Regents' Professor of Physics and Optical Sciences and holds the Chair of Quantum Optics. Meystre's research includes theoretical quantum optics, atomic physics, ultracold atoms, atom optics, Bose condensation and quantum-degenerate atomic and molecular systems. He has published over 260 referred papers and is the author of the text "Elements of Quantum Optics," together with Murray Sargent III, and of the monograph "Atom Optics." His awards and honors include Fellow, American Physical Society; Fellow, Optical Society of America; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; recipient of the Humboldt Foundation Research Prize for Senior U.S. Scientists; and recipient of the R.W. Wood Prize of the Optical Society of America. Professor Meystre has served on numerous boards, including the Advisory Board of the Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms; the External Advisory Board of the University of Michigan FOCUS Physics Frontiers Center; the Advisory Board of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. He also chaired the External Advisory Board of the Harvard-Smithsonian Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics as well as the Long-Range Planning Committee of that institute. He currently chairs the National Research Council Standing Committee of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Sciences (CAMOS), is divisional associate editor of Physical Review Letters, and serves as chair-elect of the Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics of the American Physical Society.

Peter G. Backus

President, P B Trading Company, Inc.

Edward P. Bass

Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Fine Line, Inc.

Anthony R. de Souza

Director, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, National Research Council

William E. Dietrich

Professor, Earth and Planetary Science,
UC Berkeley

Adrián Fernandez Bremauntz

President, National Institute of Ecology, Mexico

James M. Gentile

President, Research Corporation

Nick Hanauer

Second Avenue Partners

Laura F. Huenneke

Vice President for Research, Northern Arizona University

Jan Lesher

Director, Arizona Department of Commerce

Pamela A. Matson

Dean, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University

Cherry A. Murray

Deputy Director for Science and Technology, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Jonathan T. Overpeck

Director, Institute for the Study of Planet Earth,
The University of Arizona

Henry N. Pollack, Chair

Professor Emeritus, Geological Sciences, University of Michigan

Peter H. Raven

Director, Missouri Botanical Garden

Joaquin Ruiz

Dean, College of Science, The University of Arizona

Eugene G. Sander

Dean, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, The University of Arizona

José Sarukhán Kermez

Professor, Institute of Ecology, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

Rick F. Shangraw

Vice President for Research and Economic Affairs, Arizona State University

Stephen G. Wells

President, Desert Research Institute

C. Larrabbee Winter

Deputy Director, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

Ex-Officio Members

Lisa J. Graumlich

Director, School of Natural Resources, The University of Arizona

Arthur L. Herbst

Joseph B. DeLee Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago

Travis E. Huxman

Director, B2 Earthscience; Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Arizona

Pierre Meystre

Director, B2 Institute; Regents' Professor, Physics and Optical Sciences, The University of Arizona

Ramón Pacheco Aguilar

Director General, Research Center for Food and Development (CIAD), Mexico