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Contact Information:

  • Office: Lewis Lab 412
  • Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:30-2:30, Fridays 4:00-5:00, or by appointment
  • Phone (On Campus): 86431
  • Phone (Off Campus): 610-75, followed by the five digits given above
  • Email: ank22X@lehigh.edu, but replace “X” with a zero.

About Me:

I joined the faculty in the Lehigh Department of Physics in the fall 2020 semester. My field of research is ultrarelativistic heavy-ion physics, the intersection of nuclear and particle physics. One of the main goals of research in this field is to learn more about the strong force, which holds nuclei and nucleons (protons and neutrons) together. At Lehigh, I collaborate closely with Prof. Rosi Reed as part of the Lehigh Relativistic Heavy Ion Group. I work on the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, as well as the STAR and sPHENIX experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. I am co-PI on a National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation grant to construct an Even Plane Detector for sPHENIX. In 2022 I received a Department of Energy Early Career award which funds work on heavy-quark bound states at RHIC. I currently serve as Chair of the RHIC/AGS Users Executive Committee, which represents the interests of RHIC and AGS users. I also do work related to Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity in physics and STEM.

Mini CV:

  • 2020-: Assistant Professor, Lehigh University
  • 2015-2020: Research Associate, University of Houston
  • 2011-2015: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas at Austin
  • Ph.D. in Physics from Yale University
  • B.A. in Physics from Pomona College

Courses:

  • Fall 2020 & 2021: PHY 31: Modern Physics
  • Spring 2021, 2022, 2023, & 2024: PHY 364: Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics
  • Fall 2020 & 2021: PHY 362: Quantum Mechanics I
  • Fall 2023 & 2024: PHY 90 / EVST 90: Ghosts of Chernobyl

Notes:

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