Karsten M. Heeger
Associate Professor of Physics| Physics Department University of Wisconsin-Madison 1150 University Avenue Madison, WI 53706, USA |
phone: +1.608.263.2264 fax: +1.608.263.0800 heeger (at) wisc.edu |
Recent Awards
- 2011 H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship
- 2009 Sloan Research Fellowship
- 2008 DOE HEP Outstanding Junior
Investigator Award
"Precision Studies of the Reactor Antineutrino Spectrum and the Search for theta13 at Daya Bay" - 2008 DOE Nuclear Physics Outstanding Junior
Investigator Award
"Measurement of Neutrino Properties with Bolometric Detectors" - 2004 Michelson Postdoctoral Prize Lectureship
- 2003 APS Division of Nuclear Physics Dissertation Award
Biographical Sketch
Karsten Heeger received his undergraduate degree in physics from Oxford University and his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle where he worked with Prof. Hamish Robertson on a model-independent measurement of the solar 8B neutrino flux in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO). For his thesis work he was awarded the 2003 APS Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics. Before joining the faculty at the University of Wisconsin he was a Chamberlain Fellow and scientist in the Physics Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He currently works on precision studies of neutrino oscillation with reactor antineutrinos in the Daya Bay and KamLAND reactor neutrino experiments and the search for neutrinoless double beta decay with the CUORE experiment. In 2008 he received Outstanding Junior Investigator awards from DOE High Energy Physics for the search for the last unknown neutrino mixing angle theta13 at Daya Bay and from DOE Nuclear Physics for the investigation of neutrino properties with bolometric detectors. Karsten was awarded an Alfread P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2009 and a Romnes Faculty Fellowship in 2011. He currently chairs the APS Committee on International Scientific Affairs and is leading the development of digital access to APS meetings and a new APS program with China.Curriculum Vitae
Publications
Selected Talks
Teaching
Book Contributions
"Neutrino Oscillations: Present Status and Future Plans"
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