Andrea Richard
Assistant Professor
Edwards Accelerator Laboratory, Room 204, Athens Campus
Education
- Ph.D., Physics, 帝王会所, Athens, OH, 2018
- M.Sc., Physics, 帝王会所, Athens, OH, 2014
- B.Sc., Physics, Mathematics, Muskingum University, New Concord, OH, 2011
Academic Positions
- Assistant Professor, 帝王会所, 2024 鈥 present
- Adjunct Researcher, Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University, 2021 - present
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2021 鈥 2023
- Postdoctoral Researcher and Nuclear Science and Security Consortium Fellow, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University, 2018 鈥 2021
Research
Andrea is a low-energy nuclear physics experimentalist. Her current research interests include:
- Statistical nuclear physics
- Experimental nuclear astrophysics
- Synthesis of heavy elements in the universe
- Neutron-capture cross section measurements for radioactive nuclei
- Applied nuclear physics
- Nuclear Structure
Select Publications
- D. Mu虉cher, A. Spyrou, M. Wiedeking, M. Guttormsen, A. Larsen, F. Zeiser, C. Harris, A. L. Richard, et al. 鈥淓xtracting Model-Independent Nuclear Level Densities Away from Stability鈥 Phys. Rev. C. Letter 107 (2023).
- A. Voinov, N. Alanazi, S. Akhtar, S. Dhakal, R. Giri, S. Grimes, T. Massey, Z. Meisel, A. L. Richard, et al. 鈥淪pin Cutoff Factor and Level Density for Ni59 from an Analysis of Compound Nuclear Reactions鈥 Phys. Rev. C 108 (2023).
- E. Kasanda, V. Bildstein, D. Hymers, J. Easter, A. L. Richard, et al., 鈥淩ange Verification in Heavy-Ion Therapy using a Hadron Tumor Marker鈥, Phys. Med. & Bio. 25 (2023).
- H. Schatz, et al., 鈥淗orizons: Nuclear Astrophysics in the 2020s and Beyond.鈥, J. Phys. G 49 (2022).
- A. L. Richard, H. L. Crawford, P. Fallon, A. Macchiavelli, et al. 鈥淪trongly Coupled Rotational Band in 33Mg鈥 Phys. Rev. C, 96, (2017) (Rapid Communications).
Honors
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Directorate Award, Physical and Life Sciences, Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory (2023) - American Physical Society Five Sigma Physicist Award (2021)
- Nuclear Science and Security Consortium Postdoctoral Fellow (2018 鈥 2021)
- DOE Office of Science for Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Fellow (2016)
Membership
- Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (INPP)
- American Physical Society
- Elected member of the Forum on Diversity and Inclusion
- GeMSS (Gender Minorities in Science Social)
- Facility for Rare Isotope Beams User Executive Committee
- Elected as General Member