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              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
