Steven J. Pollock is an American professor of physics[1][2][3] and a President's Teaching Scholar[4] at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he has taught since 1993.

and Ph.D. in physics at Stanford University respectively in 1984 and 1987 for his thesis, entitled Electroweak Interactions in the Nuclear Domain, under Professor John Dirk Walecka.

[4] In the early aughts (2000s) he shifted his primary focus to physics education research.

[11] Pollock investigates and develops curricular and pedagogical reforms and assessments in upper-division physics courses.

He investigates impacts of established reforms in large lecture introductory courses, including the use of "Tutorials in introductory physics", with graduate TA training, and use of undergraduate learning assistants.