Amy Lynn Connolly is an American physicist. She is an associate professor in the Department of Physics at Ohio State University and a Fellow of the American Physical Society for "her contributions to experimental and theoretical studies of ultrahigh energy neutrinos, and to searches for these neutrinos using radio techniques."
Amy Connolly | |
|---|---|
| Born | Cincinnati, Ohio, US |
| Awards | National Science Foundation CAREER Award |
| Academic background | |
| Education | BS, physics, 1996, Purdue University MS, Physics, 1998, PhD, Physics, 2003, University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | A search for supersymmetric Higgs bosons in the di-tau decay mode in proton-antiproton collision at 1.8 TeV |
| Doctoral advisor | Marjorie Shapiro |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Ohio State University University College London |
Early life and education
editConnolly is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio[1] where she attended Anderson High School.[2] She completed her Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Purdue University and her Master's degree and PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. While completing her doctorate degree, she carried out a search for the Higgs boson decaying to tau leptons with data from the Collider Detector.[1] From 1997 until 2003, Connolly worked as a research assistant at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.[3]
Career
editUpon completing her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles, Connolly spent years at University College London (UCL) studying radio techniques to search for ultra-high energy neutrinos.[1] During her time at UCL, she helped set up experiments in Antarctica to detect energetic particles.[4] She left UCL in 2010 to become an assistant professor of physics at Ohio State University (OSU). In this role, she received a five-year National Science Foundation CAREER Award to support her search for high-energy neutrinos.[5] Following this, Connolly was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society for "her contributions to experimental and theoretical studies of ultrahigh energy neutrinos, and to searches for these neutrinos using radio techniques."[6] She also received the 2019 Physics Undergraduate Teaching Award as voted for by students.[7]
During her tenure at OSU, Connolly's research focused on simulations, data analysis, and instrumentation for experiments searching for neutrinos through vast volumes of natural media. The goal of her research was to utilize neutrinos at extreme energies to probe neutrino interactions and search for hints of new physics. In 2020, she earned the Susan M. Hartmann Mentoring and Leadership Award.[8]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Amy Connolly". Purdue University. Retrieved June 29, 2021.
- ^ "Anderson High School". The Cincinnati Enquirer. December 5, 1989. Retrieved June 29, 2021 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ "Prof. Amy L. Connolly" (PDF). Ohio State University. Retrieved June 29, 2021.
- ^ "ANITA's quest for high-energy neutrinos". University College London. July 17, 2007. Retrieved June 29, 2021.
- ^ "Physicist's NSF CAREER Award Assists Search for "Ghost" Particles". Ohio State University. March 6, 2013. Retrieved June 29, 2021.
- ^ "Prof. Amy Connolly Named 2019 APS Fellow". Ohio State University. September 25, 2019. Retrieved June 29, 2021.
- ^ "Professor Amy Connolly Wins Undergraduate Teaching Award". Ohio State University. April 17, 2019. Retrieved December 25, 2021.
- ^ "Amy Connolly and Heather Tanner Win The Susan M. Hartmann Mentoring and Leadership Award, 2020". Ohio State University. 2020. Retrieved June 29, 2021.