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Eisenstein to Head NSF Directorate of Mathematical and Physical SciencesRobert A. Eisenstein, PhD., has been appointed Assistant Director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the National Science Foundation (NSF). The appointment will become effective September 8. Eisenstein has served as the director of the physics division at NSF since 1992. He came to NSF with a well recognized background in nuclear and particle physics. As NSF's physics division director, he has played significant roles both in the management of large-scale projects such as the Laser Interferometer Gravity Wave Observatory (LIGO), and in the establighment of physics division initiatives in biological physics and complex phenomena. He has also led the division to a greater involvement of undergraduate students in its supported research activities. His selection follows an extensive national search. Marye Anne Fox, former National Science Board vice chair and now vice president for research at the University of Texas at Austin, headed the search committee. "Bob has the leadership and wisdom to help pave a new road for integrative, multidisciplinary, and increasingly interdependent science and engineering," said NSF director Neal Lane. "Since coming to the agency, Bob has enhanced NSF's reputation for innovation in science funding and sound management practices." Prior to joining NSF, Eisenstein was a professor of physics at the University of Illinois, where he also directed the Nuclear Physics Laboratory. Prior to that, he was a professor of physics at Carnegie Mellon University. Eisenstein received his masters and doctoral degrees in physics from Yale University, and his AB degree in physics from Oberlin College. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He also conducted post-doctoral research as a Weizmann Fellow at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel. Eisenstein is a native of St. Louis, Missouri. For more information contact:
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