H. Frederick Dylla

Frederick Dylla is Executive Director Emeritus of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), having served as Executive Director & CEO from 2007-2015. AIP is a not-for-profit organization of 10 scientific societies in the physical sciences that provides an array of information-based resources. AIP delivers scholarly journals through its subsidiary, AIP Publishing LLC, for which Dylla currently serves as senior policy advisor. Prior to coming to AIP, Dylla was Chief Technology Officer and Associate Director at DOE’s Jefferson Lab, where he spearheaded the Free Electron Laser (FEL) program. During this time, he concurrently held an Adjunct Professorship in Physics and Applied Science at the College of William and Mary. He held various positions at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, where he helped develop technology for nuclear fusion reactors, particle accelerators, and materials processing. He received his Ph.D. in physics from MIT, is a Past President and Fellow of the AVS and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. An active member in numerous local and regional technology development organizations, Dylla was also appointed by the Virginia governor to two scientific commissions; he has also served on many national advisory committees for the Department of Energy, Department of Defense, and the National Science Foundation.

Having authored of more than 200 publications, Dylla is a strong advocate for scientific journals and for improved access to scientific information through various business models. In 2009 Dylla helped organize and participated in the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable under the aegis of the US House Science and Technology Committee. The Roundtable developed consensus recommendations for the development of public access policies for scholarly data and publications; many of its recommendations were folded into the America COMPETES Act of 2010. Dylla has worked closely with colleagues in the publishing and librarian communities and in the federal government to implement public access projects that protect scientific integrity and the scholarly publishing enterprise. In 2013 Dylla helped found CHORUS, the Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States, and currently serves its board. Other publishing board involvement includes the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) Board of Directors (2008-14), and Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) Executive Council (2008-2016).