Dr. Michael Roney completed his undergraduate studies at CarletonUniversity after which he spent two years teaching in Sierra Leone with CUSO. He received his M.Sc. from McGillUniversity focusing on medical physics instrumentation. He then shifted to work on instrumentation for subatomic particle physics with the Carleton/NRC group receiving his Ph.D. from CarletonUniversity in 1989. Following two postdoctoral years with University of Chicago's Enrico Fermi Institute, he was appointed an IPP Research Scientist working at CERN on the OPAL Experiment making precision measurements of the weak mixing angle, the number of light neutrinos, and searching for new particles, including the Higgs. In 1996 he joined the faculty at the University of Victoria where he served as Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy from 2003-2008.

Professor Roney's current research involves searching for new physics in the flavour sector of the Standard Model using precision electroweak measurements as well as direct searches for new fundamental particles and processes. He has led analysis teams in both the OPAL and SLAC-based BaBar collaborations and served as the BaBar Physics Analysis Coordinator for a term that ended in 2010. He is currently leads the BaBar
Collaboration as its Spokesperson.  Looking to the future, he has been leading the Canadian effort on the exciting, recently approved, Italian-based project, SuperB - an electron-positron collider designed to search for new physics at the precision frontier with 100 times the intensity of existing facilities.

Professor Roney has taught physics at every level from secondary through to graduate school, and has supervised the research of many graduate, as well as undergraduate, students. His research group includes technical and postdoctoral personnel and graduate and undergraduate students.

He is a long-time member of the CAP and has served as Chairman of the CAP Division of Particle Physics. He has also served as an IPP Councillor, on U.S. D.O.E. and NSF panels, has chaired an NSERC review committee and serves on the BaBar International Finance Committee and TRIUMF Policy and Planning Advisory Committee.