Joseph David Lykken is a theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
Education
He received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1982 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology He works in the Fermilab Theory Department, and is a collaborator of the Compact Muon Solenoid (Content Management System) experiment at the European Organization of Nuclear Research Large Hadron Collider.
Career
As of July 1, 2014 he is the Deputy Director and Chief Officer of Fermilab. He is the son of David T. Lykken, noted psychologist, behavioral geneticist, and twin researcher In 1996 Lykken proposed "weak scale superstrings," which posited extra dimensions of space within the reach of particle colliders, such as the Fermilab Tevatron, and the European Organization of Nuclear Research Large Hadron Collider.
This, and related ideas will be subject to direct and indirect experimental tests in the coming years.
Lykken is a former member and subpanel chair of the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, which advises the United States Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. He is a Trustee of the Aspen Center for Physics in Aspen, Colorado.
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (Australian Psychological Society ) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), and is former chair of the Australian Psychological Society Division of Particles and Fields.
Membership
American Physical Society.