
Position Title
Distinguished Professor
Position Title
Distinguished Professor
313 Physics Building
Bio
Research Interests:
Experimental high energy physics, solid state detector physics, ASICS, Radiation hardness, data acquisition, and computational physics, pixel detectors, gamma-ray astrophysics.
Research Areas
Career History
- Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1986
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Pittsburgh, 1986-1990
- Assistant Professor of Physics, University of California, Davis, 1990-1994
- Associate Professor of Physics, University of California, Davis, 1994-1999
- Professor of Physics, University of California, Davis, 1999-Present
Honors
- APS-IUSSTF Professorship Award in Physics, 2011
- 2013 EPS High Energy and Particle Physics Prize, for an outstanding contribution to High Energy Physics, awarded to the ATLAS and CMS collaborations, for the discovery of a Higgs boson, as predicted by the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism.
- 2013 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research
- 2019 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the EPS for an outstanding contribution to High Energy Physics, awarded to the CDF and D0 Collaborations, for the discovery of the top quark and the detailed measurement of its properties.
- 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics awarded to the CMS Collaboration