Robert C. Hilborn
Biography
 Robert C. Hilborn is Associate Executive Officer of the American Association of Physics Teachers. He has held physics faculty positions at Oberlin College, Amherst College, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the University of Texas at Dallas. His research includes work in experimental and theoretical atomic, molecular, and optical physics and in nonlinear dynamics. Author of Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics (Oxford University Press, 2nd Ed., 2000), his recent work has focused on applying nonlinear dynamics to analyze problems in neuroscience and the dynamics of genetic networks. He has served as President of the American Association of Physics Teachers and on the Advisory Committee for the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate of the NSF, on the Board of Advisors for the College of Science, Engineering, and Technology of Jackson State University, the AAMC-HHMI Committee on the Scientific Foundations for Future Physicians, and the AAMC MR5 MCAT review committee. During the early 2000s he led the National Task Force on Undergraduate Physics and its SPIN-UP study of thriving undergraduate physics programs. He is also the leader of the Physics and Astronomy New Faculty Workshops, funded by NSF, that have introduced over 1350 new physics and astronomy faculty members to the latest science pedagogy and the research that supports that pedagogy.
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