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Jerry Peterson University of Colorado Department of Physics UCB 390 Boulder, CO 80309-0390 Tel: 303-492-1686 Fax: 303-492-3352 jerry.peterson@colorado.edu

Jerry Peterson is a professor of physics at the University of Colorado and a Jefferson Science Fellow for the U.S. Department of State. He received a PhD from the University of Washington in 1966, and has been on the Boulder campus since 1970. His research is in basic experimental nuclear physics, largely using accelerator facilities around the world. He spent a year as a program director at the NSF in Washington, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Copenhagen, Tokyo University and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He spent six and a half years in the Boulder campus Graduate School, as Assistant, Associate and Interim Vice Chancellor for Research, with broad responsibilities to accelerate and coordinate campus research in all units. His research career in nuclear science and these contacts have led to Jerry’s additional current emphases on domestic nuclear security, the internationalization of nuclear science and the development of educational tools for future national workforce needs in nuclear science. Jerry has taught a broad range of courses in Physics, and supervised thirteen PhD students. He recently taught the senior capstone seminar in International Affairs.  He is a Foreign Fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Jerry is the author of over 200 publications in the refereed literature, including efforts in nuclear astrophysics, nuclear spectroscopy and structure, nuclear reactions and applications of nuclear physics.