Dr Michalowski is head of the secretariat of the Global Science Forum at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. The Forum is an intergovernmental committee that addresses science policy issues.
He has an undergraduate degree in astronomy from Carleton College, and a PhD in elementary particle physics from Cornell University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
and a Senior Research Associate at Stanford’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he did research in robotics, artificial intelligence, and rehabilitation engineering.
He was a Science Fellow at the Stanford Center for International Security and Arms Control, where he studied nuclear weapons safety
issues. In 1993, he was awarded a 2-year State Department Science and Diplomacy Fellowship by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
He left the US government in 1995 to join the OECD.
As Executive Secretary of the Global Science Forum, Michalowski has provided administrative support and substantive input for all of the Forum’s activities in the areas of astronomy, nuclear physics, neutron and
synchrotron sources, high-energy physics, neutrino physics, neuroinformatics, bioinformatics, structural genomics, radio spectrum management, research misconduct, science education, grid computing,
mathematics, high-intensity lasers, enhancing societal safety, near-Earth objects, earthquake science, planning and administering large research infrastructures, energy research, and others.
Michalowski is a citizen of the United States (formerly of Poland). He is 57 years old and is married. His hobbies and interests include sailboat racing and cruising, woodworking, vacuum tube electronics, cooking, classical music, and the history and philosophy of science. He is fluent in English, French and Polish.