John Robert Cary is a professor of physics at the University of Colorado Boulder[1] and CEO of Tech-X Corporation,[2] which he co-founded in 1994.
At Colorado, he has served as department chair (1992-1995), center director, and faculty mentor.
[3] Cary personally has worked in a wide variety of areas related to plasma and beam physics, such as nonlinear dynamics, 3D magnetohydrodynamic equilibria, magnetic reconnection, laser plasma acceleration, fusion plasma physics, but also in other fields, such as photonic structures, beam physics, computational algorithms, and electromagnetics of structures.
Cary is a fellow of the American Physical Society[9] and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Cary has chaired or served on multiple committees of the American Physical Society[13] and the IEEE.