Dr. Bob Wilson

Dr. Robert Wilson is a professor of experimental high energy physics at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. 

Robert Wilson earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Physics at the University of London in England, and Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Physics from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. He received post-doctoral training at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and held a faculty appointment at Boston University before moving back west to help establish a new High Energy Physics research group at Colorado State University in 1992. He is a professor in the Department of Physics and was College of Natural Sciences Professor Laureate for 2021-23 and is the Principal Investigator for US Department of Energy-funded High Energy Physics and Particle Astrophysics group.

Professor Wilson has contributed to over 500 refereed scientific and technical publications and is a co-recipient of the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for work with the T2K collaboration in Japan. He served as deputy leader of the ICARUS collaboration led by Nobel Laureate Carlo Rubbia; was a member of the board of directors of the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF); and was co-leader of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment that became the 200-institution, 30-country Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) collaboration. He is current chair of the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s Standing Expert Committee for the SNOLAB underground science facility in Ontario, Canada.