Steven Cowley
Sir Steve Cowley | |
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Cowley in 2014 | |
| 7th Director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory | |
| Assumed office 1 July 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Richard J. Hawryluk (interim) |
| 31st President of the Corpus Christi College | |
| In office 1 October 2016 – 30 September 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Richard Carwardine |
| Succeeded by | Helen Moore |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Steven Charles Cowley 1959 (age 66–67) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England |
| Children | Sean Cowley and Brendan Cowley |
| Website | www |
| Scientific career | |
| Alma mater | |
| Known for | Fusion power |
| Awards | Knight Bachelor (2018) Glazebrook Medal (2012) Harkness Fellowship (1981–83) |
| Fields | |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Some Aspects of Anomalous Transport in Tokamaks: Stochastic Magnetic Fields, Tearing Modes and Nonlinear Ballooning Instabilities (Convection) (1985) |
| Doctoral advisor | Russell Kulsrud |
Sir Steven Charles Cowley (born 1959) is a British theoretical physicist and international authority on nuclear fusion and astrophysical plasmas. He has served as director of the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) since 1 July 2018. Cowley is also a member of the Commission on the Scaling of Fusion Energy, a 12-month effort to create a shared vision for government, academia, and industry on fusion. In May 2024, he was appointed the chair of the Board of Trustees for the Faraday Institution. Previously he served as president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, since October 2016. He was also the head of the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) / Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) and chief executive officer of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA).