Wolfgang Panofsky Fellowship
In 1989 the Physics Faculty of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) created a Fellowship to honor Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky, founder and first Director of SLAC. Throughout his career, W.K.H. Panofsky demonstrated creativity, insight and exceptional achievement both as a researcher and as an administrator of fundamental research. The Panofsky Fellowship is structured to foster those values by recognizing those exceptional and promising young individuals who would most benefit from the unique opportunity that the Fellowship offers, to conduct their research at SLAC.
The Fellowship celebrates W.K.H. Panofsky’s breadth of activities, which embraced all aspects of high-energy physics research; it is awarded without regard to a candidate’s particular specialty within our program. Panofsky Fellows may carry out research in theory or experiment, in one or more areas of the SLAC program:
- experimental and theoretical particle physics
- astrophysics
- beam and accelerator physics.
Fellowship appointments are awarded by the Director of SLAC following selection by the full Faculty. The appointment carries a five-year term with salary and benefits comparable to an Assistant Professorship at SLAC. At the discretion of the Director, benefits may include assistance with visa and residency applications. Fellows routinely serve as dissertation advisors to graduate students from Stanford University. Since the Fellowship's inception, Panofsky Fellows have gone on to play important roles in their fields as members of the Faculty and Staff of prominent institutions.