Dr. Sunil Somalwar is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at Rutgers University and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. His research focuses on fundamental physics at the CERN Laboratory in Switzerland, where experiments at the Large Hadron Collider recreate conditions from the earliest moments of the universe. He has received several teaching and scholarship awards, including the NSF Young Investigator Award, and has advised numerous postdoctoral, graduate, and undergraduate researchers. He was among the first teachers in the United States to offer Energy and Climate courses accessible to non-science undergraduate students.
Dr. Somalwar has been a long-term supporter of the Centre for Wildlife Studies, co-chairs Saving Wild Tigers, and has served as Chair of the New Jersey Chapter of the Sierra Club. He holds an undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and completed his graduate and postdoctoral research at the Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago. Dr. Somalwar joined the Centre for Wildlife Studies Board in 2020.
