About

Research and Professional Positions

• 2006-pres. Albert A. Michelson Professor in Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
• 2006-2018 Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
• 2001-2006 Professor of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
• 1999-2001 Armington Professor of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
• 1996-1999 Associate Professor of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
• 1994-1996 Warren E. Rupp Associate Professor of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
• 1993-1994 Warren E. Rupp Assistant Professor of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
• 1988-1993 Assistant Professor of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
• 1983-1984 Post-Doctoral Fellow/Research Associate, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Other Professional Experience

• 2006 – present Member, TOTEM Collaboration at the LHC
• 2004 – 2006. Co-Director, InTICE, the Institute for Technology Innovation, Commercialization and Entrepreneurship
• 2001 – 2006. Coordinator, Science Entrepreneurship Programs
• 2000 – 2006. Director, Physics Entrepreneurship Program
• 1993 – 2006. Co-spokesman, MiniMax (FNAL T864)
• 1996 – 2006. Co-spokesman, FELIX

Honors, Awards, and Service

• 1978-1982 Truman Scholar
• 1991-1992 Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellow
• 1994-1995 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow
• 2002 APS Fellow For providing a new paradigm for graduate education in Physics through the creation of an innovative Physics Entrepreneurship Master’s Program
• 2002-2006 Executive Committee, N2TEC, the National Network for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization
• 2003 Price Institute Innovative Entrepreneurship Educators Award presented by the Stanford Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education
• 2003 NorTech Innovation Award
• 2004-2006 Executive Committee, APS Committee on Careers and Professional Development
• 2021 Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, The Case Daily Article

Concentrations

Theoretical and Experimental Particle Physics; Technology Innovation, Commercialization and Entrepreneurship; Climate Change

Summary

Cyrus Taylor is the Albert A. Michelson Professor in Physics at Case Western Reserve University. He joined the CWRU faculty in 1988, and was chair of the physics department from 2005 until he was appointed dean in 2006. He served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences through 2018, after which he returned to the faculty.

Taylor earned his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a Truman Scholar, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He received CWRU’s 2021 Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

As a physicist, Taylor has worked in both theoretical and experimental high-energy physics, serving as co-spokesman of the MiniMax collaboration (FNAL T-864) at Fermilab and as co-spokesman of the FELIX collaboration at CERN. Taylor is currently a member of the TOTEM collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Taylor is well known for his leadership in creating innovative programs aimed at empowering scientists as entrepreneurs. He created and directed the Physics Entrepreneurship Program (PEP), which he helped expand to include other science departments (Biology/Biotechnology, Chemistry, and Mathematics) into the now internationally known Science Technology and Entrepreneurship Program (STEP) at CWRU. In 2003 was awarded the prestigious Price Institute Innovative Entrepreneurship Educators Award, presented by the Stanford Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education, for his work in creating these programs.

On stepping down as Dean, Prof. Taylor returned to the faculty; he is redirecting his research from experimental particle physics to issues related to climate change.

Select Publications

“Odderon Exchange from Elastic Scattering Differences between p-p and p-pbar Data at 1.96 TeV and from pp Forward Scattering Measurements”, D0 and Totem Collaborations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 062003 – Published 4 August 2021. Available online at https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.062003

First measurement of the total proton-proton cross-section at the LHC energy of √s = 7 TeV, The TOTEM Collaboration, (G. Antchev et al.) 2011 EPL 96 21002

Proton-proton elastic scattering at the LHC energy of √s = 7 TeV, The TOTEM Collaboration, (G. Antchev et al.) 2011 EPL 95 41001

A Search for Disoriented Chiral Condensate at the Fermilab Tevatron, The MiniMax Collaboration (T. C. Brooks, et al.). Phys. Rev. D. 61, 032003. Jan. 2000.

The Spacetime Supersymmetric Formulation of the String, J. A. Shapiro and C. C. Taylor, Phys. Rep. 191, 221-287 (1990)