Leadership Team
Dr. Lawrence S. Cardman
Associate Director for Experimental Nuclear Physics
Dr. Lawrence Cardman is Associate Director for the Experimental Nuclear Physics Division at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab), where he is responsible for the management of the fundamental research program carried out using Jefferson Lab's Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) and the associated experimental equipment. He also coordinates the support Jefferson Lab provides to the international community of scientists who carry out research using CEBAF. Dr. Cardman evaluates the nuclear physics program on a yearly basis to continually improve it, and is responsible for implementing Jefferson Lab policies and programs as they relate to the Physics Division. He also develops and ensures meaningful relationships with appropriate Jefferson Lab stakeholders.
The author of over 90 papers, Dr. Cardman received his Bachelor of Arts and PhD in physics from Yale University in 1966 and 1972, respectively. He was an instructor at Yale from 1971 to 1972, and then became a Research Associate before he went to the U.S. National Bureau of Standards as an NAS-NRC postdoctoral research fellow. In 1973, he joined the faculty of the University of Illinois as an Assistant Professor; he was promoted to an Associate and then to full Professor in 1978 and 1982, respectively.
While at the University of Illinois, Dr. Cardman served from 1981-1990 and 1992-1993 as principal investigator on the National Science Foundation grant supporting the university's Nuclear Physics Laboratory. He took sabbatical leaves at the Centre d'Etudes Nucleaire Saclay in France (1980-1981) and at Jefferson Lab (1989-1990). Dr. Cardman joined Jefferson Lab as Deputy Associate Director for Physics in 1993 and became Associate Director for Physics in 1997. He was named a Virginia Governor's Distinguished Professor at the University of Virginia in 2001.
Dr. Cardman is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), where he has served on the Program and Executive Committees of the Division of Nuclear Physics; he is currently Vice-Chair of the Division. He has also served on the DOE/NSF Nuclear Sciences Advisory Committee and a number of its subcommittees, and on a variety of other boards, including the Program Advisory Committees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Bates and the Indiana University Cyclotron Facilities; the Facility Advisory Boards for Jefferson Lab, for the Saskatchewan Accelerator and the Triangle Meson Facilities in Canada; for DAPNIA at the Centre d'Etudes Nucleaire Saclay (France), and for the Institute for Accelerating Systems and Applications in Athens, Greece.