The winds of summer will bring Dr. Nigel Smith, an internationally renowned astrophysicist, as the new director for the Sudbury-area SNOLAB International Underground Science Facility.
Located two kilometers underground in Vale Inco’s Creighton Mine, the ultra-clean lab is home to experiments which will seek particles left from the Big Bang and search for rare radioactive processes.
Chosen after a six-month search by an international selection committee, Smith will lead these ambitious projects when he takes on his new role on June 1, 2009.
Currently, he work at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, England where he is deputy divisional head and group leader. He also serves as project manager for the Boulby Underground Facility and the ZEPLIN III Dark Matter experiment, and is also a visiting professor at Imperial College in London, England.
“It’s a great privilege, and wonderfully exciting, to be given the opportunity to serve as director of SNOLAB,” Smith said in a release, “and I really look forward to working with the great team there to continue to develop its strong and world-leading research programme.”
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