Brad Marston

APS President-Elect

Brad Marston is a professor of physics at Brown University, and Director of the Brown Theoretical Physics Center.

    John (Brad) Marston

    Brad Marston is a professor of physics at Brown University, and Director of the Brown Theoretical Physics Center. A graduate of Caltech, he received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1989 and did postdoctoral work at Cornell University as an IBM Fellow. He has been a visiting professor at MIT, a visiting associate at Caltech, a visiting professor at ENS-Lyon, and a General Member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) at UC Santa Barbara. Marston is an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow and a recipient of a National Young Investigator Award. In 2008 he was designated a NSF American Competitiveness and Innovation Fellow, and in 2010 an American Physical Society (APS) Outstanding Referee. Marston is a fellow and lifetime member of the American Physical Society (APS). He has chaired the Advisory Board of the KITP, and was a Councilor for the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics (DCMP). He is the 2025 president-elect of the APS.

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