Caltech in London

Dr Thomas Fink (BS ’94) is the founding director of the London Institute. He studied physics at Caltech, where he won the Fisher Prize, and did his PhD at Cambridge. He went on to do a postdoc at École Normale Supérieure in Paris and was a Junior Fellow at Caius College, Cambridge, working on statistical physics at the Cavendish Laboratory. While in Paris, he became a Chargé de Recherche in the French CNRS. In 2011, he founded the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences—the UK’s first independent research center for theoretical physics and mathematics, where researchers can do research full-time. Ten years later, the Institute moved into rooms at the Royal Institution in Mayfair.

James Arroyo OBE is director of the Ditchley Foundation and a former diplomat. He previously served as director for Europe and director for data at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. His work focuses on the societal, governmental, and commercial impacts of science and technology.

Thomas F. Rosenbaum is Caltech’s ninth president and the Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair and professor of physics. He is an expert on the quantum mechanical nature of materials, conducting research at Bell Laboratories, IBM Watson Research Center, and the University of Chicago, where he served as Vice President for Research & Argonne National Laboratory and then Provost, before moving to Caltech in 2014. He received his bachelor’s degree in physics with honors from Harvard University and a PhD in physics from Princeton University.