The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has named Stephen Mackwell as its Deputy Executive Officer, effective February 1, 2019.
After completing his postdoctoral research, Mackwell took a tenure-track position at Pennsylvania State University.
Following a sabbatical in 1996, Mackwell was offered a professorship at the Bayerisches Geoinstitut in Bayreuth, Germany, and he worked at the institute for two years as a professor and then for three more years as its director. He left Bayerisches in 2002, becoming director of the USRA Lunar & Planetary Institute in Houston and an adjunct professor at Rice University.
In his years at USRA, an independent, nonprofit research organisation, Mackwell focused much of his attention on the education and outreach pieces. He also oversaw a $15 million-a-year NASA internship program, the oversight of which was contracted to USRA along with an $18 million-a-year NASA Postdoctoral Fellow program and a $3 million-a-year internship program for the U.S. Air Force. He also ran separate outreach programs, including the FIRST Tech Challenge and FIRST Lego League Jr. -- robotics competitions aimed at groups of K-12 students.
Mackwell is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union and the Mineralogical Society of America. Among AIP Member Societies, he is a member of the American Astronomical Society and is active in its Division of Planetary Sciences. In 2016, the International Astronomical Union recognised his contributions by naming Asteroid 5292 Mackwell in his honour.
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