UVic physicist Dr. Michael Roney

UVic physicist Dr. Michael Roney has taken on two high-profile roles in the international and national physics communities. He has just begun a two-year term as the spokesperson (chief executive officer) of BaBar, an international subatomic physics collaboration based at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University. Babar is studying how the laws of physics differ for ordinary matter and anti-matter. It involves physicists from 72 universities and labs from 12 countries, including a team from UVic. As CEO, Roney is ultimately responsible for all scientific, technical, organizational and financial affairs of the BaBar collaboration. And on the national stage, Roney will assume the presidency of the Canadian Association of Physics (CAP) in June, 2011. A broadly based national network of physicists working in educational, industrial and research settings, CAP represents the voice of Canadian physicists to government, granting agencies and international scientific societies.