Research and publications in physics include studies in electron-atom physics, parity violation in atoms, quantum optics and the experimental foundations of quantum physics. Arthur Zajonc was a visiting professor and research scientist at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, and the Universities of Rochester and Hannover and he was a Fulbright professor at the University of Innsbruck. He served as scientific coordinator for the Mind and Life dialogues with H.H. the Dalai Lama, whose meetings have been published as The New Physics and Cosmology: Dialogues with the Dalai Lama (Oxford 2004) and The Dalai Lama at MIT (Harvard UP, 2006). Arthur Zajonc taught physics at Amherst College from 1978 -2012.