Dr. ROBERT WILLIAMS --Vita Space Telescope Science Institute 3700 San Martin Drive Baltimore, MD 21218 Phone: (410) 338-4963 e-mail: wms@stsci.edu Birthdate/Place: 14 October 1940 - Dunsmuir, California, USA Education: 1962 B.A. - University of California, Berkeley 1965 Ph.D. - University of Wisconsin, Madison THESIS: The Ionization and Thermal Equilibrium of a Gas Excited by Ultraviolet Synchrotron Radiation (Advisor: D.E. Osterbrock) Employment: 2015- Astronomer, Emeritus – STScI 1993- Adjunct Professor – The Johns Hopkins University 1998-2015 Distinguished Research Scholar - STScI 1993-1998 Director - Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) 1985-1993 Director - Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, La Serena, CHILE 1984-1985 NRC Senior Research Fellow - NASA-Ames Research Center 1983-1984 Visiting Research Associate - European Southern Observatory, Garching, GERMANY 1978-1983 Professor - University of Arizona, Tucson 1969-1978 Associate Professor - University of Arizona 1965-1969 Assistant Professor - University of Arizona 1962-1965 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Fellow - Univ. of Wisconsin 1960-1962 Research Assistant - University of California, Berkeley Societies: International Astronomical Union American Academy of Arts and Sciences Phi Beta Kappa American Astronomical Society Royal Astronomical Society (UK) National Service: Chairman, U.S. National Fulbright Comm., Astronomy (1974-78) CTIO Telescope Allocation Committee (1976-78) KPNO Telescope Allocation Committee (1978-80) CTIO Users Committee (1978-81) AAS Education Advisory Board (1981-83) NSF Minority Graduate Fellowship Panel (1982-85) Trustee/Treasurer, Aspen Center for Physics (1982-88) U.S. Natl. Comm. - IAU (1990-92) AAS Comm. on Astronomy and Public Policy (1994-2000) NASA Blue Ribbon Advisory Committee on ExNPS (1995) Space Studies Board - Nat'l. Res. Council (1995-98) Trustee/Exec. Comm. - Associated Universities, Inc. (1997-2002) Visiting Comm. - CfA/Harvard Astronomy Dept. (1998-2003) Chair, SIRTF Science Center Advisory Comm. (1999) Vice-President, American Astronom. Society (2000-2003)

Vice-President, International Astron. Union (2000-2006) Steering Comm., Australian Telescope Nat'l Facility (2001-2003) NRC Comm. on Organization and Management of Research in Astronomy & Astrophysics (2001) U.S. Gemini Sci. Advisory Comm. (2001-2005) Keck Observatory Visiting Committee (2002) Fachbeirat, Chair (Vis. Comm.), Max Planck Institut fur Astrophysik,

Heidelberg (2002-2012) Director Search Committee, NRAO (2002) Director Search Committee, NAIC/Arecibo (2002) Director Search Committee, ASIAA/Academica Sinica, Taiwan (2002) Director Search Committee, Australia Teles. Nat’l. Facility (2002) Gruber Cosmology Prize, Advisory Board (2002-2005) Director Search Committee, Anglo-Australian Observatory (2003) Chair, NASA IRTF/Keck Mgt. & Operns. Working Group (2004-2007) Chair, ESO Visiting Committee (2003-2006) L. Gratton Prize Committee Member (U. Roma & Padova, Italy)

Amer. Astron. Society, Nominating Comm. (2006- 2009) Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) Rev. Committee, ESO/Garching (2006-2012) SKA Site Selection Committee (2006) President-elect, International Astronomical Union (2006-2009) ALPACA Project Review Committee, SUNY-SB Univ. (2006) Chair, ESO Director Search Committee (2006) NSF Math/Physical Sciences Advisory Committee (2006-2009) ALMA Project Review Board (2007) Chair, ALMA Director Search Committee (2008) Australian Ministry of Science Review of Australian Optical Astronomy (2008) V. Ambartsumian International Prize Comm.-Armenian Acad of Sci (2009- ) NSF Astronomy Division Head Search Committee (2009) UN International Year of Astronomy 2009 Advisory Committee (2009) Chair, Academica Sinica Inst. of Astron. & Astrophy. Review (2009) IAU President (2009-2012) ETH-Zurich Professor Search Committee (2010) Gemini Director Review Committee (2010) Univ. California Observatories (UCO) Review Committee (2011) Gemini Director Search Committee (2011) Scientific Advisory Bd. Inst. Nac. Astrophy, Optica, & Electronica (INAOE) Puebla, MX (2012- ) Bd. of Governors, Internat. Ctr. for Relativistic Astrophys (ICRA), Rome (2012- ) Chair, Director Search Comm., Kavli Inst. Astr & Astrophys (KIAA) Beijing (2012) Director Search Comm, Acad Sinica Inst Astr & Astrophys (ASIAA) Taipei (2013) Univ. Wisconsin Astron Board of Visitors (2013- ) Keck Observatory Director Search Committee (2014) Univ. of California Observatories Director Search Committee (2014) Reviewer, South Africa Large Astron. Projects (2015) Visiting Comm., Stony Brook Univ. Astro Dept. (2015) Honors/Awards/ Lectureships: Dorothy Klumpke Roberts Prize - Univ. Calif., Berkeley (1962) Senior Fulbright Professorship - University College London (1972-73) Alexander von Humboldt Research Scholar - Landessternwarte, Heidelberg (1991-92) Bunyan Lecturer - Stanford University (1995) Heinz Pagels Memorial Lecturer - Aspen Physics Center (1995) Lowell Lecturer - Boston Museum of Science (1996) Univ. of Maryland Distinguished Lecturer (1996)

Marlar Prize & Lecturer – Rice University (1997) Evnin Lecturer - Princeton University (1997) Nat'l Undergraduate Research Convocation Lectureship - Univ. of Texas (1997) Invited Discourse, IAU General Assembly - Kyoto, Japan (1997) Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997) Carl von Siemens Foundation Lecturer - Munich (1997) Walker-Ames Distinguished Professor – Univ. of Washington (1998) President's Distinguished Lecturer - Univ. of Victoria (1998) Beatrice Tinsley Prize -- Amer. Astron. Soc. (1998) Visiting Fellow - Australian National Univ., Canberra (1999) Edmond Halley Lecturer - University of Oxford, UK (1999) NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal (1999) Ludwig Biermann Lecturer - MPI fur Astrophysik, Garching (1999) Amer. Astron. Soc. Centennial Lecturer (2000) Sturm Prize & Lecturer – Wesleyan University (2001) C.V. Raman Chair & Professorship – Indian Academy of Sciences (2003/4) President, International Astronomical Union (2009) Advisor, The Gruber Foundation (2009-13 ) Advisory Council, Kavli Institute of Astrophysics—Peking University (2011-14) Honorary Citizenship + Key to the City, Padua, Italy (2011) Kingsley Distinguished Lectureship, Calif. Institute of Technology (2012) Elected Honorary Fellow, UK Royal Astronomical Society (2012) Kavli Lecturer--223rd AAS Meeting, Washington, DC (2014) U. Nevada/Reno Distinguished Lecturer (2015) Vice-Chair, AUI Board of Trustees (2015- )