His term begins on July 1, 2012.
Dijkgraaf was a member of the Institute from 1991 to 1992 and will succeed Peter Goddard, the director since 2004.
“Robbert Dijkgraaf’s distinguished achievements as a scientist, administrator, communicator and advocate for science and the arts make him an absolutely outstanding choice for director of the IAS,” Goddard said to the Princeton Packet. “I am certain that the institute will flourish under his leadership.”
Goddard said he would remain at the Institute in the School of Natural Sciences after he steps down.
Dijkgraaf’s research relates to string theory; specifically, the connections between string theory, supersymmetric quantum field theory and matrix models.
The Institute was founded in 1930 and has hosted such scientists as Albert Einstein, John von Neumann and Alan Turing.
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