Robert Hilborn

Robert C. Hilborn is the recently retired Associate Executive Officer of the American Association of Physics Teachers. He has degrees in physics from Lehigh University and Harvard University. After several decades as a physics faculty member at Oberlin, Amherst, and the University of Texas at Dallas, Hilborn worked at AAPT from 2011 through 2023. He had served as President of AAPT and on the Advisory Committee for the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation, on the Board of Advisors for the College of Science, Engineering, and Technology of Jackson State University, the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) and Howard Hughes Medical joint Committee on the Scientific Foundations for Future Physicians, and the AAMC MR5 MCAT review committee. His physics research has focused on atomic and molecular physics tests of fundamental symmetries, nonlinear dynamics and chaos, computational modeling of gene regulatory networks, and gravitational waves. He is the author of Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics (Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 2000) and co-author (with Alice Flarend) of Quantum Computing: From Alice to Bob (Oxford University Press, 2022), and Quantum Computing and Quantum Physics (Oxford University Press, 2026).