Meigan Aronson
Board Director
Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of British Columbia
Dr. Meigan Aronson is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and an Investigator at the Stewart Blusson Quantum Materials Institute at The University of British Columbia. She served as the Dean of the Faculty of Science at UBC from 2018-2023, and as Dean of the College of Science at Texas A&M University from 2015-2018. Receiving an AB from Bryn Mawr College and a PhD in Physics from the University of Illinois, Dr. Aronson was previously a Professor in the Departments of Physics at the University of Michigan, Stony Brook University, and Texas A&M University, and as well a Group Leader in Correlated Electron Systems at Brookhaven National Laboratory. These experiences provide her a broad perspective on academic research and governance, and she has a particular interest in supporting interdisciplinary researchers.
Dr. Aronson is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the Neutron Scattering Society of America, as well as being a CIC Academic Leadership Fellow and a National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow. She is a member and former Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Gordon Research Conferences and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Helmholtz Foundation, and served on the US National Academy of Science Board on Physics and Astronomy, and was Chair of the External Advisory Committee of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, and the Neutron Advisory Board of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She was elected as Chair of the Division of Condensed Matter Physics of the American Physical Society. From these positions, she brings experience in research advocacy and community building, and an appreciation of the importance of research facilities in the national and international research contexts.
Dr. Aronson’s research centers on synthesis and experimental exploration of quantum materials and their functionality, using neutron scattering as a primary experimental tool. She is the author or more than 150 papers in the areas of quantum magnetism, superconductivity, and electronic phase transitions.