Pekka Sinervo

Pekka K. Sinervo is a Finnish-Canadian experimental particle physicist who has studied quarks, gluons and vector bosons using high-energy electron and proton collisions.

Career He is a professor of physics at University of Toronto, where he has taught and pursued research since 1990. His earlier work involved the study of mesons with charm quarks and strange quarks, and hadrons with bottom quarks (see, e.g., ). He is currently working on searches for new particles (see, e.g., ) and dark matter at the SNOLAB Underground Laboratory, as a member of the SuperCDMS Collaboration.

Sinervo served as the 16th dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto from 2003 to 2008, and as senior vice-president, research at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research from 2009 to 2015. He has written on international research collaborations, science and Judaism, and popular science (see, e.g., ). He is a member of the Reform Jewish Community of Canada, serving as its president from 2017 to 2021, and has served in leadership roles in the Union for Reform Judaism and the World Union for Progressive Judaism.

Fellowships in the American Physical Society,the Royal Society of Canada, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Canadian Association of Physicists recognize his contributions to the discovery of the top quark. He was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 2018.