Jerry Gollub is currently Professor of Physics (and also the John and Barbara Bush Professor in the Natural Sciences) at Haverford. He does experiments on nonlinear and non-equilibrium phenomena, including instabilities and pattern formation in fluids, chaotic dynamics and turbulence, and nonlinear waves. He has co-authored Chaotic Dynamics: An Introduction, an undergraduate textbook, and he teaches a course for a broad audience entitled "Predictability in Science." Since 1981 he has also been affiliated with the Physics and Mechanical Engineering Departments of the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Gollub was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 1993, and became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992. He was the first recipient of the APS Award for Research in an Undergraduate Institution in 1985, was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1984-85, won an international "Science for Art" Award in 1994, and earlier held Danforth and Woodrow Wilson Fellowships. He was a Morris Loeb Lecturer in Physics at Harvard University in 1990, a Sigma Xi National Lecturer in 1983-85, and a Visiting Professor at Ecole Normale in 1985, and 1991. Gollub previously served as Provost (Chief Academic Officer) at Haverford. He is also the recipient of the 2003 Prize in Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society.