Peter Schiffer, Ph.D.

Peter Schiffer is Princeton University’s dean for research, vice president for the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, and Class of 1909 Professor of Physics. He received his B.S. in Physics from Yale and his Ph.D. in Physics from Stanford University, and he performed postdoctoral research at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He has also held faculty appointments at the University of Notre Dame, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Yale University. Dr. Schiffer has served in various university leadership roles, including as the associate vice president for research at Penn State, the vice chancellor for research at Illinois and the vice provost for research at Yale. He also has served as a senior fellow of the Association of American Universities, and he has served in a variety of leadership roles for the American Physical Society.

Schiffer has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the American Physical Society, and a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. He maintains an active research program in the experimental study of magnetic materials and nanostructures, focusing on the physics of artificial spin ice.