David Eisenbud has been named as the next director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California. His four-year term starts August 1, 2013.

This is the second time Eisenbud will have served as MSRI director; he first held the post from 1997 until the appointment of Robert Bryant in 2007. He was president of the AMS from 2003 to 2005. Currently, Eisenbud is a professor at the University of California at Berkeley and is the director for Mathematics and the Physical Sciences at the Simons Foundation in New York.

Read more in the news release on the MSRI web site.