Claude R. Canizares


Claude R. Canizares stepped down June 30, 2015 from his post as Vice President of MIT. He remains the Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics at MIT and associate director for MIT of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center. He is on sabbatical for the 2015-2016 school year.

Academic career

Canizares earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from Harvard University. He came to MIT as a postdoctoral fellow in 1971 and joined the physics faculty in 1974. In 1984, he was made a full professor.
From 1990 to 2002, Canizares was the director of MIT's Center for Space Research. In 2002, he was appointed Associate Provost and Vice President for Research. He left the Associate Provostship and VPR positions to become VP in 2013.
Canizares is also the principal investigator for the Chandra X-ray Observatory's High Resolution Transmission Grating Spectrometer instrument.

Selected publications

Canizares is the author or co-author of more than 170 scientific papers.
T Fang, GL Bryan, and C.R. Canizares

ApJ 564, 604
H.L Marshall, C.R. Canizares and N.S. Schulz
ApJ 564, 941-952
H.L. Marshall, B.P. Miller, D.S. Davis, E.S. Perlman, M. Wise, C.R. Canizares, D.E. Harris, J.A. Biretta
ApJ 564, 683-687
J.M. Miller, A.C. Fabian, R. Wijnands, R.A. Remillard, P. Wojdowski, N.S. Schulz, T. Di Matteo, H.L. Marshall, C.R. Canizares, D. Pooley, W.H.G. Lewin
ApJ submitted, February 2002.
Y.Yao, N.S. Shulz, M.F. Gu, M.A. Nowak and C.R. Canizares

ApJ 696, 1418-1430
D.P. Huenemoerder, N.S. Schulz, P. Testa, A.Kesich, C.R. Canizares

ApJ 707, 942-953
T.Fang, D.A. Buote, P.J. Humphrey, C.R. Canizares, L. Zappacosta, R.Maiolino

ApJ 714, 1715-1724