Ed Seidel | |
|---|---|
| 28th President of the University of Wyoming | |
| Assumed office July 1, 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Neil Theobald |
| Personal details | |
| Born | August 21, 1957 Bethesda, Maryland, U.S. |
| Education | College of William and Mary (BS) University of Pennsylvania (MS) Yale University (PhD) |
| Awards | Sidney Fernbach Award Gordon Bell Prize |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Perturbation methods for the calculation of gravitational waves from slightly nonspherical spacetimes with applications to stellar core collapse (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Vincent Moncrief |
Edward Seidel (born August 21, 1957) is an American academic administrator and scientist serving as the president of the University of Wyoming since July 1, 2020.[1] He previously served as the Vice President for Economic Development and Innovation for the University of Illinois System, as well as a Founder Professor in the Department of Physics and a professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[2] He was the director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at Illinois from 2014 to 2017.