Timothy M. Heckman 

Johns Hopkins University

Timothy M. Heckman is the Dr. A. Hermann Pfund Professor in the William H. Miller III Department of Physics & Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University. He was the department Chair from 2015 to 2022. Heckman has served as a member of the NAS Committee on Astronomy & Astrophysics and the Board on Physics and Astronomy, as a member of the Steering Committee of the 2010 NAS Decadal Survey and as the Chair of the Panel on OIR Astronomy from the Ground for the 2020 Decadal Survey. He served as a member of STIC and JSTAC, and as member and Vice Chair of the AURA Board. Heckman’s research has focused on observations of galaxies and supermassive black holes. He has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and to the National Academy of Sciences.