Biographical Information

Richard A. Stroynowski

Born  in Lodz, Richard  Stroynowski grew  up in  Warsaw, Poland. As an
undergraduate  he studied   physics at the   University of  Warsaw and
obtained a Magister degree (M.Sc.) in 1968.  For the following year he
worked there as an Assistant at the  Physics Department.  He emigrated
from Poland in 1969 ending up in Geneva,  Switzerland, where he worked
from  1969 to 1975  as  a research  scientist  at CERN - the  European
Center  for Nuclear Research, while pursuing  a graduate  study at the
University  of Geneva.  He obtained his   Ph.D.  degree in 1973. Since
1975 Richard Stroynowski  lives  in USA  where he became   naturalized
citizen in 1980. He spent 6 years as a Staff Scientist at the Stanford
Linear Accelerator  Center (SLAC) and  11  years as a  Senior Research
Associate and Lecturer  at Caltech.  Since  1991 he is  a Professor of
Physics at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Richard  Stroynowski's  research interests  lie   in the  area of  the
experimental  High Energy   Particle   physics and the    structure of
matter.  In his early  work he studied  the partonic  structure of the
proton which  provided experimental basis for the  QCD - the theory of
strong interactions.  For the last 25  years he studied the properties
of heavy quarks   using electron  -  positron colliders  at  SLAC  and
Cornell and led an extended effort to understand the properties of the
tau lepton.He is a co-author of over 500 publications most of them  in 
refereed journals. 

Richard  Stroynowski  was also  involved  in  developing the  research
program  for  the  Supercollider  where  he served  on  the  Executive
Committee  of GEM  Collaboration  and  led an  effort  to build  world
largest superconducting magnet.

At  present he concentrates on the preparation of the physics program 
and  on  the  building  of  the  ATLAS  detector  for the Large Hadron  
Collider at CERN. Since December 2000 he is  the  US ATLAS coordinator 
of  the  Liquid Argon Calorimeter. He chairs  the  Collaboration Board
of the institutes involved in the calorimeter construction.

He is married and has two daughters.

Kudos:
Fellow American Physical Society
US Representative to the NATO Science for Peace Steering Group