Persis S. Drell
Director Emerita
Persis S. Drell was SLAC's director from 2007 through October 2012. She received her
B.A. in mathematics and physics from Wellesley College in 1977. She
received her Ph.D. in atomic physics from the University of California,
Berkeley, in 1983. She then switched to high-energy experimental physics
and worked as a postdoctoral scientist with Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory. She joined the faculty of the Physics Department at Cornell
University in 1988. In 2000, she became head of the Cornell high-energy
group; in 2001, she was named deputy director of Cornell's Laboratory of
Nuclear Studies. In 2002, Dr. Drell accepted a position as Professor and
Director of Research at SLAC. Her current research activities are in
particle astrophysics. In 2007 she was named Director at SLAC.
Dr. Drell has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship; a
National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award; she
is a fellow of the American Physical Society; a member of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; and in 2010 she was elected to the
National Academy of Sciences. Her recent activities include serving on COSEPUP/BPA
for the 2004
publication, Setting Priorities for NSF-Sponsored Large Research
Facilities for the National Academy of Sciences, and chairing the HEPAP subcommittee that
produced the Quantum Universe report in 2004. In spring of
2006 she was the Morris Loeb Lecturer in Physics at Harvard University.
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