John (Brad) Marston

Vice President

Brad Marston photoEducational History

  • IBM Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University (1989-91)
  • PhD, Physics, Princeton University (1989)
  • BS, Physics (with Honors), California Institute of Technology (1984)

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Top 5 Honors, Awards, or Recognition

  • Fellow and Lifetime Member, American Physical Society
  • Alfred P. Sloan Fellow
  • National Young Investigator
  • NSF American Competitiveness and Innovation Fellow
  • APS Outstanding Referee

Most Recent APS Volunteer History

  • Division of Condensed Matter Physics (DCMP) representative on the APS Council (2016-19)
  • Member of APS Board of Directors (and Finance and Council Steering Committees) (2017-19)
  • Member of the March Meeting Task Force (2019-21)
  • Member of the Panel on Public Affairs (2022-24)
  • Member of the Physical Review E editorial board (2022-25)

Membership in Other Societies

  • American Geophysical Union

Other Relevant Experience

Chaired the advisory board of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) from 2012-2013. Served as a member of the organizing committee and later executive committee and chair line of the APS Topical Group on the Physics of Climate (GPC). Sabbaticals have been taken at MIT, Caltech, ENS de Lyon, and the KITP. Lead organizer of the 2022 Boulder Summer School for Condensed Matter and Materials Theory on “Hydrodynamics Across Scales.” Serve on the leadership team of Brown University’s new Initiative for Sustainable Energy.