Steven Cowley

Director of Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Prof. Steven Charles Cowley Kt FRS is a British theoretical physicist and international authority on nuclear fusion and astrophysical plasmas. He has served as director of the United States Department of Energy Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory since 1 July 2018. From 2016 to 2018 he was President of Corpus Christi College Oxford and from 2008 to 2016 he was Chief Executive of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.