Nigel Lockyer
Director, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
First recorded July 12, 2019
What are we made of? How did the universe begin? What secrets do the smallest, most elemental particles of matter hold, and how can they help us understand the intricacies of space and time? Nigel Lockyer explores these questions, and seeks to uncover the answers, as the director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, America's particle physics and accelerator laboratory.
As director, Nigel oversees the world's most advanced particle accelerators and digs down to the smallest building blocks of matter, probing the farthest reaches of the universe, and seeking out the nature of dark matter and dark energy.
Under Nigel’s leadership, Fermilab has has set a course for world leadership in accelerator-based neutrino research. An experimental particle physicist, he spent six years at the helm of TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory for nuclear and particle physics, from 2007 to 2013. He holds a PhD in physics from The Ohio State University, is a fellow of the American Physical Society and received the society's 2006 Panofsky Prize for his leading research on the bottom quark.
