PAUL GRANNIS
Research Professor
Physics and Astronomy
paul.grannis@stonybrook.edu | (631)-632-8088, Physics D-142
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Curriculum Vitae. (Last updated: 2023 Mar 20)

Biography
Distinguished Professor emeritus Paul Grannis joined the Stony Brook faculty in 1966 following a PhD and postdoc position at the University of California, Berkeley. He retired in 2007, and continues as a Research Professor. He served as chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy from 2002 to 2005, as spokesperson of the DZero collaboration from 1983 to 1996 and 2014 to the present, and as chair of the American Physical Society Division of Particles and Fieldsin 1997. His honors include the W.K.H. Panofsky Prize of the APS, co-winner of the European Physical Society High Energy Physics Prize, honorary doctorate at Ohio University and foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Research Statement
Paul Grannis has conducted experiments in high energy physics since 1963 at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Brookhaven National Lab, Fermi National Acceleratory Laboratory, CERN in Geneva Switzerland, and the Rutherford Laboratory in England. His contributions include the first observation of the rising total cross section in high energy proton-proton collisions, discovery of the top quark, high precision measurements of the W boson mass, first evidence for the Higgs boson in decays to bottom quarks, and the observation of the Odderon in high energy elastic scattering. He has led world-wide efforts to establish a new electron-positron collider to study the Higgs boson couplings, perform precision measurements of the top quark, W and Z boson properties, and seek new physics beyond the standard paradigm. A more complete summary of his research activities can be found at his home page and his CV.