Christine Angela Aidala is an American high-energy nuclear physicist, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow and Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan.[1] She studies nucleon structure and parton dynamics in quantum chromodynamics.[2]
Christine Aidala | |
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 Christine Aidala, American physicist | |
| Born | Christine Angela Aidala |
| Nationality | American |
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| Thesis | Measurement of the Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetry for Mid-rapidity Production of Neutral Pions in Polarized p+p Collisions at 200 GeV Center-of-Mass Energy (2006) |
| Academic advisors | Brian A. Cole |
| Website | lsa |
Education
editShe received a B.S. in physics and a B.S. in music from Yale University in 1999. During her undergraduate studies, she taught English and music in Milan, Italy.[3] She earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2005. During her Ph.D., she was also a Physics Associate at Brookhaven National Laboratory and worked on the OPAL Experiment at CERN.
Career and research
editAidala was a postdoctoral researcher at University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she studied proton spin decomposition using the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory.[4] In addition to numerous research publications, she authored a review article[5] on nucleon spin structure in the journal Reviews of Modern Physics that has been cited over 200 times.
She currently studies nucleon structure and quantum chromodynamics with her research lab at the University of Michigan. The Aidala group's work involves international collaboration to study spin-spin and spin-momentum correlations in a variety of subatomic particles. Her experiments use the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Main Injector at Fermilab, and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
In 2017, she was selected to serve on a National Academy of Sciences committee to assess the justification for a domestic electron ion collider facility in the United States.[6][7]
In addition to researching subatomic particle structure, she is working on a foundational physics project[8] deriving the standard mathematical frameworks for Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics from physical assumptions.
Aidala has participated in numerous outreach activities, including Saturday Morning Physics[9] and coordinating physics demonstrations for elementary and middle school students.
In 2013, she wrote an essay about her career path, which was published in the book "Blazing the Trail: Essays by Leading Women in Science".[10] She has also been interviewed[11][12] on this topic.
Awards and honors
editIn 2015, she was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship[13][14] and was a recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2018.[15] In July 2019 she received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.[16]
She was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2023, "for a series of impressive experiments aimed at elucidating the flavor and spin structure of the proton in terms of the quarks and gluons of QCD, conducted at high-energy facilities in both the USA and Europe".[17]
References
edit- ^ "Faculty - U-M LSA Physics". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ "Inspire".
- ^ "Christine Aidala - University of Michigan". www-personal.umich.edu. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ "10 Questions for a Nuclear Physicist: Christine Aidala". Energy.gov. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ Aidala CA, Bass SD, Hasch D, Mallot GK. The spin structure of the nucleon. Reviews of Modern Physics. 2013 Apr 12;85(2):655.
- ^ "electron-ion-collider". sites.nationalacademies.org. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ "Committee: U.S.-Based Electron Ion Collider Science Assessment". www8.nationalacademies.org. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ "From physical principles to Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamics - MCubed". mcubed.umich.edu. Archived from the original on 16 June 2018. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ "Saturday Morning Physics - U-M LSA Physics". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ "Blazing the Trail: Essays by Leading Women in Science - Yale High Energy Physics". hep.yale.edu. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ "Robert Dalka: Respect will draw more women into STEM". 22 January 2018. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ "RHIC Physicist Christine Aidala Featured on DOE Blog - BNL Newsroom". www.bnl.gov. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ "Six U-M researchers selected for Sloan fellowships". Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ "Past Fellows". sloan.org. Archived from the original on 14 March 2018. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#1452636 - CAREER: Valence and Sea Quark Dynamics at Fermilab". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ "President Donald J. Trump Announces Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers". whitehouse.gov. Retrieved 6 July 2019 – via National Archives.
- ^ "2023 Fellows". APS Fellow Archive. American Physical Society. Retrieved 2023-10-19.