Chaden Djalali is the third of three candidates for provost and executive vice chancellor of the Lawrence campus.

He has served as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Iowa since 2012. Djalali, a nuclear physicist, had previously been chair of the physics department at the University of South Carolina. Other details about the candidate, including a complete CV, are available at provostsearch.ku.edu.

Djalali will deliver a public presentation to campus from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, April 25, at the Summerfield Room in the Adams Alumni Center. A reception will follow from 5 to 6 p.m. at the Pub in the Adams Alumni Center.

For those with a KU online ID, the presentation will be live-streamed via video, and an archived video link will be made available after the presentation is over. Links to the live stream and archived video will be available at provostsearch.ku.edu, as well as an online evaluation form. Evaluation forms will be accepted until Thursday, April 28.

Djalali joins Neeli Bendapudi and Larry Singell as named candidates for the position.

A search committee chaired by Steve Warren, professor of speech-language-hearing and investigator in the Life Span Institute, identified the three candidates. The committee was assisted by the executive search firm R. William Funk and associates.