Career
After a brief period of postdoctoral work at the University of Washington, he joined the faculty of Stanford University in 1971, where (with Helen Quinn) he originated Peccei–Quinn theory, still the most famous proposed solution to the strong CP problem. In 1978, he returned to Europe as a staff member of the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany. He joined the Deutsches Elektron Synchrotron (DESY) Laboratory in Hamburg, Germany, as the Head of the Theoretical Group in 1984. He returned to the United States in 1989, joining the faculty of the Department of Physics at UCLA. Soon thereafter, he became Chair of the Department, a position he held until becoming Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences of the College of Letters and Sciences in November, 1993.
Peccei is currently on the Editorial Board of Nuclear Physics B Supplement, and the Journal of Physics G. He is a member of the Club of Rome and President of the Fondazione Aurelio Peccei and is a Fellow of both the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics in the United Kingdom. In the last 15 years, he has served on numerous advisory boards both in Europe and in the U.S. He currently chairs both the Scientific Advisory Board for the Laboratory for Nuclear Science at Cornell University and the Visiting Committee for the Laboratory of Nuclear Science at MIT. He is also a member of the Visiting Committee for the Department of Physics at MIT and is the Convener of the Vice Chancellor for Research Council in the University of California.
Peccei is the son of the founder of the Club of Rome, Aurelio Peccei.
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