Primary oversight of:
- Information Technology Services
- Office of Industrial Liaison, including technology transfer, intellectual property (patents and copyrights), industrial relations, and commercialization
- Office of Sponsored Programs, including cost sharing and regulatory issues
- Office of Veterinary Resources
- Research compliance: University Animal Welfare Committee
- University Committee on Activities Involving Human Subjects
- University Biosafety and Environmental Health and Safety Committees
- Research grants, opportunities, and fundraising (government, foundations, and industry)
- Research infrastructure, space, and other resource needs
- Research programs, interactions and collaborations joint between schools
- University-wide leadership and perspective for research at the Washington Square Campus, including but not restricted to research in the sciences
Provost liaison for:
- Campus Space Planning and Real Estate
- Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
- FAS, Science
Dr. Pierre C. Hohenberg is the Senior Vice Provost for Research, responsible for providing University-wide leadership in advancing research at NYU, coordinating research among various schools of the University, and shaping the strategic planning for the University's research enterprise.
Prior to coming to NYU, Dr. Hohenberg served as the Eugene Higgins Adjunct Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Yale University, where he served as Deputy Provost for Science and Technology from 1995 to 2003. Prior to Yale, he had a 30-year association with AT&T Bell Laboratories, including serving as head of the theoretical physics department. He was a professor of theoretical physics at the Technical University of Munich from 1974 to 1977.
Dr. Hohenberg received his bachelor's (1956), master's (1958), and doctoral degrees (1962), all in physics, from Harvard University. His principal areas of scholarship include condensed matter physics, statistical physics, and non-equilibrium phenomena; he is particularly well-known as one of the originators of Density Functional Theory and of the Dynamical Scaling Theory of critical phenomena. Dr. Hohenberg has been the author or co-author of more than 100 publications, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the recipient of the Max Planck Medal of the German Physical Society and of the Lars Onsager Prize of the American Physical Society, among other honors.