CCT Interim Co-Director Jorge Pullin

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In September 2008, LSU Provost Astrid Merget and Vice Chancellor for Research & Economic Development Brooks Keel selected Jorge Pullin as CCT Interim Co-Director. Pullin serves alongside Interim Director Stephen David Beck as the University forms an international search committee to find a new CCT director. 

Pullin is the Horace Hearne Chair in Theoretical Physics at the LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy and also is Director of the Horace Hearne Institute for Theoretical Physics. His research interests cover many aspects of gravitational physics, including black hole collisions and quantum gravity. He accepted a joint faculty appointment with the CCT in 2003.

Pullin attended the  University of Buenos Aires to study electrical engineering and obtained his Ph.D. in physics from the Instituto Balseiro, National Commission of Atomic Energy in Bariloche, Argentina through the University of Cordoba. Prior to arriving at LSU in 2001, he worked at Syracuse University, University of Utah and Penn State University. He accepted a joint faculty appointment with the CCT in 2003, where he works with the numerical relativity research group.

Pullin is a fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and recently was elected a corresponding member of the Latin American Academy of Sciences, a corresponding member of the  Mexican Academy of Sciences and of the  National Academy of Sciences of Argentina.