ACFI personnel include faculty, research staff, and students at UMass Amherst, affiliated faculty and researchers at other institutions (see Partners), the Director, and an Advisory Board.
People
Faculty
Associate Professor
Experimental searches for new phenomena, including Hidden Valley scenarios.
Assistant Professor
Experimental particle physicists studying the Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector.
Professor
Experimental searches at ATLAS for new, exotic phenomena and Higgs measurements.
Assistant Professor
Theoretical nuclear and particle physics with emphasis on fundamental symmetries. We perform theoretical studies of neutrinoless double beta decay, electric dipole moments, dark matter detection, and other probes of physics beyond the Standard Model.
Distinguished Professor - Emeritus
Particle physics theory, effective field theory and quantum field theory in general, Quantum General Relativity, Field Theory approaches to quantum gravity. Anything else that I find interesting at the moment.
Professor Emeritus
Theoretical High Energy Physics with an emphasis on phenomenology and fundamental symmetries.
Assistant Professor
String theory, quantum gravity, non-perturbative quantum field theory, particle and string phenomenology, cosmology.
Assistant Professor
Experimental Particle Physics at Low Energies, Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics, Detector R&D.
Professor Emeritus
Theoretical particle and nuclear physics, General relativity, Effective field theory.
Associate Head/Senior Lecturer II
Classical and Quantum Gravity and String Theory
Professor
Experimental particle and AMO physics. Emphasis on precision measurements of particle electric and magnetic dipole moments as tests of the Standard Model.
Distinguished Gluckstern Professor
Experimental Nuclear and Particle Physics, Tests of Fundamental Symmetries and Conservation Laws, Precision Tests of the Standard Model, Novel Probes of the QCD Structure of the Nucleon.
Assistant Professor
Experimental particle physics, LHC, searching for new phenomena with the Higgs boson, electronics for triggers.
Professor
Tests of fundamental symmetries and low-energy QCD. Experimental Nuclear Physics.
Assistant Professor & Assistant Director, Amherst Center for Fundamental Interactions
Experimental neutrino physicist exploring neutrino and dark matter properties.
Professor & Director, Amherst Center for Fundamental Interactions
Theoretical physics at the interface of nuclear physics, high energy physics, and cosmology: baryogenesis; physics beyond the Standard Model; fundamental symmetries; dark matter; electroweak symmetry breaking; collider phenomenology; quantum chromodynamics; effective field theories.
Professor
Theoretical physics at the interface of cosmology and physics beyond the Standard Model, with particular emphasis on inflation and its signatures in the cosmic microwave background, and on cosmological gravitational waves. Also, research in General Relativity and its possible modifications at low energies.
Professor
Classical and Quantum Gravity.
Professor
Experimental particle physics at the energy frontier. Search for new phenomena and measurements with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider.
Scientists & Engineers
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Experimental Nuclear and Particle Physics.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Experimental physics: High-precision tests of the Standard Model using muons; high-precision nuclear magnetic resonance magnetometry.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Experimental Particle Physics. Working on the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Experimental Particle Physics, ATLAS at the LHC.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Physics beyond the Standard Model, collider phenomenology.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Experimental Nuclear Physics and Electroweak physics.
Research Scientist
Theoretical particle physics - superconformal field theories.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Experimental Particle Physics, ATLAS at the LHC.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Experimental Particle Physics, ATLAS at the LHC
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Experimental Particle Physics, ATLAS at the LHC.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dark Matter Experiment
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Experimental particle and nuclear physics
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Theoretical particle physics, Effective Field Theory and Beyond the Standard Model physics.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Experimental particle physicists working on searches for new phenomena and muon detector development.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Theoretical particle physics.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Particle Physics Phenomenology involving precision calculations for Electroweak Physics.
Students
Visitors
Graduate Student (NENS) Stony Brook
Experimental nuclear and particle physics, probing astrophysics in the lab and physics beyond the standard model.
Professor, Amherst College
Theoretical particle physics; neutrino physics; electroweak symmetry breaking
Advisory Board
Martin
Beneke
Technical U. Munich
Robert
Bernstein
Fermilab
Alessandra
Buonanno
U. Maryland
Vincenzo
Cirigliano
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Geoff
Greene
U. Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Eva
Halkiadakis
Rutgers U.
John
Hardy
Texas A & M U.
Wick
Haxton
U.C. Berkeley/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Karsten
Heeger
Yale U.
David
Hertzog
U. Washington
JoAnne
Hewett
SLAC
Scott
Hughes
MIT
David
Lowe
Brown U.
Robert
McKeown
Jefferson Laboratory/William & Mary
Gail
McLaughlin
North Carolina State U.
Larry
McLerran
Institute for Nuclear Theory/U. Washington
Stefano
Profumo
U.C. Santa Cruz
Kate
Scholberg
Duke U.
Shufang
Su
U. Arizona
Mark
Wise
Caltech
Nuclear Physics Program • High Energy Physics Program
