Content by Pekka Sinervo, PhD

Dr. Pekka K. Sinervo is an experimental particle physicist who has studied quarks, gluons and vector bosons using high-energy electron and proton collisions. He is a professor of physics at University of Toronto, where he has taught and pursued research since 1990.

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. He has been recognized for his contributions with appointments to numerous scientific societies, with fellowships in the American Physical Society and the Royal Society of Canada recognizing his contributions to the discovery of the top quark. He was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 2018 for his contributions to the discoveries of the top quark and Higgs boson, and his leadership in the Canadian Jewish community.