James Slevin - Biography#

James Slevin received his BSc in physics from Queen’s University, Belfast and his PhD from City University, New York in 1970. He was lecturer/senior lecturer at the University of Stirling in Scotland (1970-85) and Professor of Experimental Physics at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth (1985-2000). Over the past decade he has held senior offices at the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) as Science Secretary, Secretary and most recently as President (2005-2008).

James Slevin is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a Member of the American Physical Society and a member of Academia Europaea. He has published more than 60 papers in international peer-reviewed journals in his main area of research Atomic Physics. He has been involved in major international collaborative programmes of research at the European Centre of Particle Physics research (CERN) and at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, California).