Dr. E. Daryl Crozier
Professor of Physics, Emeritus
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia

Daryl Crozier received his B.Sc., Honours Physics and Chemistry, from the University of Toronto in 1961, and his Ph.D. from Queen’s University in 1964. As a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow he studied in England at the Universities of London, 1965-1966, and East Anglia, 1966-1967. In 1967 Dr. Crozier joined the Physics faculty at Simon Fraser University. Under mandatory legislation, he retired from teaching in 2004. As a Professor Emeritus he continues a rigorous research program. He has more than 100 refereed publications in condensed matter physics.

Professor Crozier brings 34 years of experience using synchrotron radiation to the CLS Board of Directors. His first experiments involved XAFS structural determinations of amorphous and liquid semiconductors at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory. In 1981, in collaboration with SSRL and funding from NSERC and SFU, he constructed the first Canadian hard x-ray beamline, an XAFS facility on the 4-1 eight-pole wiggler. He has done experiments at NSLS and the Synchrotron Radiation Center, WI. He served as an executive member of the International XAFS Society, 1994-2000.

In 1990 he was a founding member of the Canadian Institute of Synchrotron Radiation. The major accomplishment of the CISR was to secure for Canada its first synchrotron radiation source, the CLS. He served on the CLS Facilities Access Committee, 1999-2002 and its Science Advisory Committee, 2004-2006. He has served on various foreign review panels, including the U.S. Department of Energy Review of the NSLS, 2001. He was a Canadian delegate at the Expert Meeting of the OECD Megascience Forum on neutron and synchrotron radiation facilities, Denmark, 1993.

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