Principal Investigator
Or grew up in Moshav Even-Sapir, Israel. He received his undergraduate degrees in physics and computer engineering from the Hebrew University and his PhD in physics from Tel-Aviv University. He joint MIT in October 2015 as a Pappalardo Fellow, formally joining the faculty in July 2017. He received various prizes and fellowships for his work to date, including the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (2020), APS Stuart J. Freedman Award (2019), U.S. DOE Early Career Award (2019), IUPAP NP Young Scientist Prize (2019), G. Altarelli award (2018), Amar G. Bose Fellowship (2018), FNAL Intensity-Frontier fellowship (2016), Rothschild Fellowship (2015), Israeli Physics Society and Jefferson-Lab dissertation prizes (2015), A. Pazi Award (2013) and the Y. Eisenberg Prize (2011).
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Florian Hauenstein
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Projects: JLab SRC, EIC, Electrons 4 Neutrinos.
Dr. Tyler Kutz
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Projects: JLab SRC.
Dr. Julian Kahlbow
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Projects: JLab SRC and SRC@JINR and GSI.
Dr. Nathaly Santiesteban
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Projects: JLab SRC.
*starting Jan. 2021.
Dr. Igor Korover
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Projects: JLab SRC, EIC.
*starting Oct. 2020.
Graduate Students
Efrain Patrick Segarra [5th year]
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Projects: JLab EMC (BAND), SRC@JINR,
EMC Phenomenology & Nuclear PDFs.
Afroditi Papadopoulou [5th year]
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Projects: Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions (MicroBooNE & Electrons-4-Neutrinos)
Andrew Denniston [3rd year]
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Projects: JLab SRC (CLAS12) and Phenomenology
Jackson Pybus [3rd year]
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Projects: JLab SRC (GlueX), EIC
and Phenomenology
Elena Magdelena Suriano [2nd year]
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Projects: SiPM based detectors and gamma-ray detection arrays
Hang (Christine) Qi [1st year]
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Projects: SRCs and Phenomenology
Researchers
Natalie Wright [post-baccalaureate student]
email: wrightne@mit.edu
Projects: Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions (MicroBooNE & Electrons-4-Neutrinos)
Alex Kiral [Paglia Research Fellow]
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Projects: JLab SRC
Dr. Sharon Beck [Research Affiliate]
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Projects: JLab SRC
(BAND, Data-Mining)
Pedro Toledo [Research Affiliate Engineer]
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Projects: BAND Laser Calibration System
Dr. Arie Beck [Research Affiliate]
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Projects: OLIVIA and JLab (BAND, Data-Mining)
Undergraduate Students
Anjali Nambrath
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Projects: Electrons-4-Neutrinos
Former Members:
Grad students, postdocs, and researchers
Prof. Adi Ashkenazi (Postdoc)
Current position: Assistant Professor, Tel-Aviv University.
*Starting Oct. 1st 2020.
Dr. Dien Nguyen (Postdoc)
Current position: N. Isgur Fellow, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.
Dr. Holly Szumila-Vance (Postdoc)
Current position: Staff Scientist, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.
Dr. Reynier Cruz Torres (graduate student)
Current position: Postdoc, U.C. Berkeley.
Prof. Axel Schmidt (Postdoc)
Current position: Assistant Professor, George Washington University.
Dr. Maria Patsyuk (Postdoc)
Current position: Staff Scientist, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Russia.
Dr. George Laskaris (Postdoc)
Current position: Consultant, Ab-initio software.
Dr. Barak Schmookler (graduate student)
Current position: Postdoc, Center for Frontiers in Nuclear Science, Stony Brook University.
Dr. Longwu Ou (graduate student)
Current position: Industry.
Dr. Arie Beck (Visiting Scientist, 2017-18)
Current position: Senior Researcher, IAEC, Israel.
Dr. Sharon Mey-Tal Beck (Visiting Scientist, 2017-18)
Current position: Senior Researcher, IAEC, Israel.
Prof. Taofeng Wang (Visiting Scientist, 2016-17)
Current position: Associate Professor, Beihang University, China.
Undergraduates
Ms. Kirsten Surrao
Next position: Graduate student, Columbia University.
Honors: APS CEU Fellowship.
Mr. Samuel Solomon
Next position: Graduate student, Caltech.
Honors: APS CEU Fellowship; 2020 Chemistry Department Award for outstanding research achievements.
Mr. Adin Hrnjic
Next position: Graduate student, UIUC.
Mr. Hector Iglesias
Next position: Graduate student.
Mr. Joseph Iosue
Next position: Graduate student, University of Maryland.
Ms. Peninah Levine
Next position: Graduate student, MIT.
Honors: APS CEU Fellowship
Mr. Adrian Silva
[MIT Undergrad]
Honors: APS CEU Fellowship; Paul E. Gray (1954) Endowed Fund for UROP project
Mr. Oluwaseun Ogunde
[MIT Undergrad]
Mr. Connor Chung
[MIT Undergrad]
Mr. Sean Gloumeau
[MIT Undergrad]
Mr. Ting-Chun Lin
[MIT Undergrad]
Mr. Yong-Hui Lim
[MIT Undergrad]