2024 – CAS Presidential Fellow, IHEP (Beijing), China
2022 – Associate Professor, University of Alabama
2016 – Assistant Professor, University of Alabama
2012 – 2016 Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University
2005 – 2012 Graduate Research Assistant, University of Alabama
2003 – 2004 Visiting Research Fellow, INFN, Italy
2002 – 2005 Junior Research Fellow, JINR (Dubna), Russia
1996 – 2002 Undergraduate, СПбГТИ(ТУ), Russia
Wei Wang
Postdoctoral Researcher
Wei will lead the LIXO effort. He is also interested in applying advanced machine learning techniques to analysis of low-background experiments.
Subash Chandra Behera
Postdoctoral Researcher
Subash will bring his extensive experience with ultra-peripheral heavy-ion collisions at the LHC to our ongoing magnetic monopole search.
Aditya Upreti
Graduate student
Aditya searches for magnetic monopoles in particle collisions at the LHC. He is currently investigating experimental signatures specific to the Schwinger mechanism that could lead to abundant production of magnetic monopoles in Pb-Pb collisions.
Dhanurdhar Bajpai
Graduate student
Dhanurdhar has recently joined the group and already has his finger in many pies, from performing energy calibration of germanium detectors used for muon capture measurements at PSI, to developing deep neural network for position reconstruction in DARWIN, to learning to operate the LIXO system.
Audrey Best
Undergraduate, 2024
Audrey started in the group as an engineering student, leading the design and overseeing the fabrication of the new LIXO cryostat. Now Audrey switched her major to Physics and Data Science, and will continue working in the group on the GPU-based optical simulations of the LIXO2 setup.
Cole Christie
Undergraduate, 2025
Cole is a Randall Research Scholar working on state-of-the-art computer simulation of magnetic monopole propagation. When not debugging compilation issues, he uses Jackson to derive expressions for radiation losses of relativistic monopoles.
New graduate and undergraduate students contributing to the group:
1. Ayan Dandapat (MoEDAL)
2. Ben Davis (detector development)
3. Ubayeid Ullah (MoEDAL Outreach)
Former students who have worked in the group:
1. Andie Wall (MoEDAL) — Now a Ph.D. student at UPenn
2. Alex Anklam (MoEDAL)
3. Jessica Thompson (Randall Research Scholar, MoEDAL)
4. Ryan McKinely (MoEDAL)
5. Jack Muriano (EXO)
6. Liam Peers (EXO)
7. Russell Weas (Randall Research Scholar, MoEDAL)
8. Hank Richards (Randall Research Scholar, EXO)
9. Justin Lam (EXO)
10. Jared Cleghorn
11. Alysse Hoelmer (LIXO)
12. Joe Lahey (LIXO)
13. Conor Findley (Optical simulations)
14. Molly McAllister (MoEDAL Outreach)
15. Luke Jones (DARWIN)
16. Jacob Tenharmsel (software support)
17. Zachary Feller (LIXO)
18. Amirr (Summer student IISER Mohali, DARWIN)
19. Logan McDermott (MoEDAL)
Former postdocs:
1. Arun Kumar Soma (EXO, 11/2016 – 11/2019)
Arun worked on reflectivity measurements in liquid xenon for the nEXO experiment. He also served as a shift coordinator on EXO-200.
Graduate research assistant positions available (email)
Undergraduate research opportunities available, both hardware and software related.
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