Tony Tyson

Tony Tyson is a Chief Scientist at Rubin Observatory since 2013, also working as a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Davis since September 2004. Prior to that, Tony was the LSST Director at LSST Corporation from June 2003 to August 2013. Tyson has a background in experimental physics and has held a position as a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Lucent Technologies Bell Labs innovations from January 1969 to August 2004. Tony holds a BS in Physics from Stanford University, a Postdoc in Physics from the University of Chicago, and a PhD in Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.