Barry Klein, PhD

Vice Chancellor for Research, UC Davis; Ex-Officio Trustee

Barry M. Klein, Vice Chancellor for Research and professor of physics at the University of California, Davis, received his B.S. degree in Engineering Physics in 1962 and M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in physics in 1965 and 1969, respectively, all at New York University. Klein served at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, D.C. in research and scientific leadership positions in condensed matter physics and complex systems theory from 1969-1992. He also served in a scientific leadership capacity at the National Science Foundation from 1984-1985 while on leave from NRL. He has given invited presentations at premier conferences, universities and research laboratories worldwide, and he has served on many important scientific advisory panels and boards.

Klein joined the UC Davis faculty in 1992 and served as chair of the Department of Physics from 1992-1998 and as vice provost for academic personnel from 1998-2001. He was appointed vice chancellor for research in July 2001, with his primary area of responsibility being advancing the research and outreach missions of UC Davis.

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