Dr. Pierre C. Hohenberg is the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Policies, responsible for providing reviewing, developing and implementing academic policies on a University-wide basis. He is also the co-chair of the Space Planning Working Group, which provides the senior leadership with advice on the disposition of the University's academic space. He also serves as Professor in the Physics Department. From 2004 through 2009 Dr. Hohenberg was NYU's Senior Vice Provost for Research.
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.