Claude R. Canizares is an American physicist who stepped down June 30, 2015 from his post as Vice President of MIT. He remains the Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics at MIT and associate director for MIT of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center.

Academic career

Canizares earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Harvard University. He came to MIT as a postdoctoral fellow in 1971 and joined the physics faculty in 1974. In 1984, he was made a full professor. From 1990 to 2002, Canizares was the director of MIT's Center for Space Research (now known as the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research). In 2002, he was appointed associate provost and vice president for research. He left the associate provostship and VPR positions to become VP in 2013. Canizares is also the principal investigator for the Chandra X-ray Observatory's High Resolution Transmission Grating Spectrometer instrument. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1989 for "pioneering investigations in x-ray astrophysics, particularly in the analysis of astrophysical plasmas by high-resolution x-ray spectroscopy"

Selected publications

Canizares is the author or co-author of more than 170 scientific papers. T Fang, GL Bryan, and C.R. Canizares ApJ 564, 604 (2002) H.L Marshall, C.R. Canizares and N.S. Schulz ApJ 564, 941-952 (2002) H.L. Marshall, B.P. Miller, D.S. Davis, E.S. Perlman, M. Wise, C.R. Canizares, D.E. Harris, J.A. Biretta ApJ 564, 683-687 (2002) J.M. Miller, A.C. Fabian, R. Wijnands, R.A. Remillard, P. Wojdowski, N.S. Schulz, T. Di Matteo, H.L. Marshall, C.R. Canizares, D. Pooley, W.H.G. Lewin ApJ submitted, February 2002. Y.Yao, N.S. Shulz, M.F. Gu, M.A. Nowak and C.R. Canizares ApJ 696, (2) 1418-1430 (2009) D.P. Huenemoerder, N.S. Schulz, P. Testa, A.Kesich, C.R. Canizares ApJ 707, 942-953 (2009) T.Fang, D.A. Buote, P.J. Humphrey, C.R. Canizares, L. Zappacosta, R.Maiolino ApJ 714, 1715-1724 (2010)