| Peter James Reynolds | |
| Birth Date: | 19 November 1949 |
| Birth Place: | New York, New York, U.S. |
| Fields: | Condensed matter physics, statistical physics, atomic and molecular physics, theoretical chemistry |
| Workplaces: | Army Research Office, Office of Naval Research, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Boston University |
| Education: | Bronx High School of Science |
| Alma Mater: | MIT UC, Berkeley |
| Known For: | Monte Carlo Renormalization Group, Quantum Monte Carlo, AMO physics and Quantum Information Science Program Management |
| Awards: | Presidential Rank Award of Distinguished Senior Professional (2015) |
| Doctoral Advisor: | H.E. Stanley |
Peter James Reynolds is a theoretical physicist serving as a senior research scientist (ST) at the Army Research Office (ARO). He was formerly the ARO Physics Division chief and a program manager for atomic and molecular physics. Prior to joining ARO in 2003 he was at the Office of Naval Research, serving as a program officer, starting in 1988.
He was awarded the status of Fellow[1] in the American Physical Society,[2] after he was nominated by the Division of Computational Physics in 1995[3] for
His QMC work was done while at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) from 1980 to 1988, initially working there as a staff scientist in the National Resource for Computation in Chemistry (NRCC). His renormalization group work focused on geometric phase transitions such as percolation and their connection to disordered lattice spin models. That work was done as part of his PhD work at MIT and as an assistant research professor at Boston University (BU).