Vita – Dr. ROBERT WILLIAMS

Space Telescope Science Institute

3700 San Martin Drive

Baltimore, MD 21218

Phone: (410) 338-4963

e-mail:

Birthdate/Place: 14 October 1940 - Dunsmuir, California, USA

Education: 1962 B.A. - University of California, Berkeley

1965 Ph.D. - University of Wisconsin, Madison

THESIS: The Ionization and Thermal Equilibrium of a Gas

Excited by Ultraviolet Synchrotron Radiation

(Advisor: D.E. Osterbrock)

Employment: 1998- Distinguished Research Scholar - STScI

1993-Adjunct Professor – The Johns Hopkins University

1993-1998 Director - Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

1985-1993 Director - Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory,

La Serena, CHILE

1984-1985 NRC Senior Research Fellow - NASA-Ames Research

Center

1983-1984 Visiting Research Associate - European Southern

Observatory, Garching, GERMANY

1978-1983 Professor - University of Arizona, Tucson

1969-1978 Associate Professor - University of Arizona

1965-1969 Assistant Professor - University of Arizona

1962-1965 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Fellow - Univ.

of Wisconsin

1960-1962 Research Assistant - University of California,

Berkeley

Societies: International Astronomical Union

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Phi Beta Kappa

American Astronomical Society

National

Service: Chairman, U.S. National Fulbright Comm., Astronomy (1974-78)

CTIO Telescope Allocation Committee (1976-78)

KPNO Telescope Allocation Committee (1978-80)

CTIO Users Committee (1978-81)

AAS Education Advisory Board (1981-83)

NSF Minority Graduate Fellowship Panel (1982-85)

Trustee/Treasurer, Aspen Center for Physics (1982-88)

U.S. Natl. Comm. - IAU (1990-92)

AAS Comm. on Astronomy and Public Policy (1994-2000)

NASA Blue Ribbon Advisory Committee on ExNPS (1995)

Space Studies Board - Nat'l. Res. Council (1995-98)

Trustee/Exec. Comm. - Associated Universities, Inc. (1997-2002)

Visiting Comm. - CfA/Harvard Astronomy Dept. (1998-2003)

Chair, SIRTF Science Center Advisory Comm. (1999)

Vice-President, American Astronom. Society (2000-2003)

Vice-President, International Astron. Union (2000-2006)

Steering Comm., Australian Telescope Nat'l Facility (2001-2003)

NRC Comm. on Organization and Management of Research in

Astronomy & Astrophysics (2001)

U.S. Gemini Sci. Advisory Comm. (2001-2005)

Keck Observatory Visiting Committee (2002)

Fachbeirat, Chair (Vis. Comm.), Max Planck Institut fur Astrophysik,

Heidelberg (2002- )

Director Search Committee, NRAO (2002)

Director Search Committee, NAIC/Arecibo (2002)

Director Search Committee, ASIAA/Academica Sinica, Taiwan (2002)

Director Search Committee, Australia Teles. Nat’l. Facility (2002)

Gruber Cosmology Prize, Advisory Board (2002-2005)

Director Search Committee, Anglo-Australian Observatory (2003)

Chair, NASA IRTF/Keck Mgt. & Operns. Working Group (2004-2007)

Chair, ESO Visiting Committee (2003-2006)

Amer. Astron. Society, Nominating Comm. (2006- )

Extremely Large Telescope (ELR) Review Committee, ESO-Garching (2006- )

SKA Site Selection Committee (2006)

President-elect, International Astronomical Union (2006- )

ALPACA Project Review Committee, SUNY-SB Univ. (2006)

Chair, ESO Director Search Committee (2006)

NSF Math/Physical Sciences Advisory Committee (2006- )

ALMA Project Review Board (2007)

Chair, ALMA Director Search Committee (2008)

Comm. to Review Australian Optical Astronomy (2008)

Chair, Academica Sinica Inst. Of Astron. & Astrophy. Review (2009)

Honors/Awards/

Lectureships: Dorothy Klumpke Roberts Prize - Univ. Calif., Berkeley (1962)

Senior Fulbright Professor - University College London (1972-73)

Alexander von Humboldt Research Scholar - Landessternwarte,

Heidelberg (1991-92)

Bunyan Lecturer - Stanford University (1995)

Heinz Pagels Memorial Lecturer - Aspen Physics Center (1995)

Lowell Lecturer - Boston Museum of Science (1996)

Univ. of Maryland Distinguished Lecturer (1996)

Marlar Prize & Lecturer – Rice University (1997)

Evnin Lecturer - Princeton University (1997)

Nat'l Undergraduate Research Convocation Lecturer - Univ. of

Texas (1997)

Invited Discourse, IAU General Assembly - Kyoto, Japan (1997)

Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997)

Carl von Siemens Foundation Lecturer - Munich (1997)

Walker-Ames Distinguished Professor – Univ. of Washington (1998)

President's Distinguished Lecturer - Univ. of Victoria (1998)

Beatrice Tinsley Prize -- Amer. Astron. Soc. (1998)

Visiting Fellow - Australian National Univ., Canberra (1999)

Edmond Halley Lecturer - University of Oxford, UK (1999)

NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal (1999)

Ludwig Biermann Lecturer - MPI fur Astrophysik, Garching (1999)

Amer. Astron. Soc. Centennial Lecturer (2000 )

Sturm Prize & Lecturer – Wesleyan University (2001)

C.V. Raman Chair & Lectureship – Indian Academy of Sciences (2003/4)