J. Michael Roney is Professor of Physics at the University of Victoria and Director of Canada’s Institute of Particle Physics. His research has focused on electroweak particle physics and subatomic particle detector instrumentation. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has served as President of the Canadian Association of Physicists. In the past, he has contributed to the OPAL experiment at CERN’s Large Electron–Positron Collider and the T2K experiment at the J-PARC accelerator in Japan. He has been a member of the SLAC-based BaBar Collaboration since 1996 and its Spokesperson since 2010. His current research is focused on the Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB electron-positron collider.
