Dr. Roberto Peccei, Vice Chancellor of Research, University of California, Los Angeles
"Novel and Effective Strategies and Partnerships Among Academia, Industry and Government: Innovation Through Commercialization"
Dr. Peccei addressed the role of UCLA and other research institutions with respect to the Innovation Pipeline processes of discovery, development and commercialization of new technologies. Other topics discussed included the collaborative value and ultimate impact of strong partnerships among university, industry and government stakeholders. Relevant issues included the business, legal and policy underpinnings of such collaborations.
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Roberto
D. Peccei is Vice Chancellor for Research at UCLA, a position he has
held since October, 2000. He is a particle theorist whose principal
interests lie in the area of electroweak interactions and in the
interface between particle physics and cosmology.
Peccei was
born in Italy, completed his secondary school in Argentina, and came to
the United States in 1958 to pursue his university studies in physics.
He obtained a B.S. from MIT in 1962, and M.S. from NYU in 1964 and a
Ph.D. from MIT in 1969. After a brief period of postdoctoral work at
the University of Washington, he joined the faculty of Stanford
University in 1971. In 1978, he returned to Europe as a staff member of
the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany. He joined the Deutsches
Elektron Synchrotron (DESY) Laboratory in Hamburg, Germany, as the Head
of the Theoretical Group in 1984. He returned to the United States in
1989, joining the faculty of the Department of Physics at UCLA. Soon
thereafter, he became Chair of the Department, a position he held until
becoming Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences of the College of
Letters and Sciences in November 1993.
Peccei was the
Schroedinger Professor at the University of Vienna in 1983, the Boris
Jacobsohn Lecturer at the University of Washington in 1986, the Phi
Beta Kappa Lecturer at UCLA and the Emilio Segre Professor at the
University of Tel Aviv in 1992, and delivered the first Abdus Salam
Memorial Lecture in Pakistan in 1997. He has served on numerous
advisory boards both in Europe and the United States in the last 25
years. He is a member of the Club of Rome and is the President of the
Fondazione Aurelio Peccei. He presently serves on the Board of the
California Biomedical Association, is the Chair of the governing Board
of the California NanoSystems Institute and is a member of the Visiting
Committee for the Department of Physics at MIT. He is a Fellow of both
the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics in the
United Kingdom.
