Thomas F. Rosenbaum

Thomas F. Rosenbaum is the ninth president of the California Institute of Technology, the Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair and Professor of Physics. He is an expert on the quantum mechanical nature of materials, conducting research at Bell Laboratories, IBM Watson Research Center and the University of Chicago, where he served as vice president for research and then provost before moving to Caltech in 2014. He received his bachelor’s degree in physics with honors from Harvard University and a PhD in physics from Princeton University.

Rosenbaum is Chair of the Board of Trustees of Society for Science, and is an alumnus of the 1973 Science Talent Search.

He joined the Society’s Board of Trustees in 2019.