CWRU Physics Faculty

Research and Professional Positions

2001-pres. Professor of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
1999-2001 Armington Professor of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
1996-1999 Associate Professor of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
1994-1996 Warren E. Rupp Associate Professor of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
1993-1994 Warren E. Rupp Assistant Professor of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
1988-1993 Assistant Professor of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
1983-1984 Post-Doctoral Fellow/Research Associate, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Other Professional Experience

2004 - pres. Co-Director, InTICE, the Institute for Technology Innovation, Commercialization and Entrepreneurship
2001 - pres. Coordinator, Science Entrepreneurship Programs
2000 - pres. Director, Physics Entrepreneurship Program
1993 - pres. Co-spokesman, MiniMax (FNAL T864)
1996 - pres. Co-spokesman, FELIX

Honors, Awards and Service

1978-1982 Truman Scholar

1991-1992 Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellow

1994-1995 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow

2002-pres. APS Fellow For providing a new paradigm for graduate education in Physics through the creation of an innovative Physics Entrepreneurship Master's Program

2002-pres. Executive Committee, N2TEC, the National Network for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization

2003 Price Institute Innovative Entrepreneurship Educators Award presented by the Stanford Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education

2003 NorTech Innovation Award

2004-pres. Executive Committee, APS Committee on Careers and Professional Development

Summary

Prof. Taylor is the author of more than 60 scientific papers and has given more than 70 invited talks in recent years. As a physicist, he has worked in both theoretical and experimental high energy physics, serving as co-spokesman of the MiniMax collaboration (FNAL T-864) at Fermilab (1993 - present) and as co-spokesman of the FELIX collaboration at CERN (1996-present). Prof. Taylor has also been a leader in creating new programs aimed at empowering scientists as entrepreneurs. He is Director of the Physics Entrepreneurship Program at Case Western Reserve University, Coordinator of Case's Science Entrepreneurship Programs and Co-Director of InTICE, the Institute for Technology Innovation, Commercialization and Entrepreneurship. Prof. Taylor was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society for providing a new paradigm for graduate education in Physics through the creation of an innovative Physics Entrepreneurship Master's Program, and was awarded the prestigous 2003 Price Institute Innovative Entrepreneurship Educators Award for pioneering the innovative Physics Entrepreneurship Program.