Nigel Lockyer is an American experimental particle physicist and has been Director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Fermilab, in Batavia, Illinois since September 2013. Fermilab is America's premier laboratory for particle physics research. Before moving to Fermilab, Lockyer served as Director of TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics, from May 2007 to September 2013, and was a Professor of Physics at the University of British Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania. He was born in Scotland, raised in Canada, and attended graduate school in the United States.