Dr. George Fuller

Biography

Professor Fuller received a B.S. in 1976 and a Ph.D. in 1981 from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). His doctoral thesis was supervised by Professor William Fowler and focused on 'Nuclear Weak Interaction Rates Stellar Evolution Collapse.' After obtaining his Ph.D., he was a Robert R. McCormick Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago from 1981 to 1983, where he worked with D.N. Schramm and W.D. Arnett. He also served as a Visiting Assistant Research Astrophysicist at Lick Observatory, UC Santa Cruz, and held a Research Assistant Professor position at the Institute for Nuclear Theory at the University of Washington. In 1988, he was appointed Associate Professor at UC San Diego and became a full professor in 1992, earning the title of Distinguished Professor in 2012. He has been the Director of the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences (CASS) at UC San Diego since 2007. His research interests include Theoretical Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology, focusing on Dark Matter, General Relativity, and Gravitational Waves, with significant contributions to understanding the early universe and the role of the Standard Model of physics in cosmic phenomena.

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