ELENA APRILE Biographical Sketch Columbia University 10 ...
ELENA APRILE Biographical Sketch Columbia University 10 ...
ELENA APRILE Biographical Sketch Columbia University 10 ...
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
<strong>ELENA</strong> <strong>APRILE</strong><br />
<strong>Biographical</strong> <strong>Sketch</strong><br />
<strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
<strong>10</strong> Sheldon Pl.<br />
Physics Department & Astrophysics Laboratory Ardsley, NY <strong>10</strong>502<br />
538 West 120th Street (914) 674-0154<br />
New York, NY <strong>10</strong>027<br />
Tel: (212) 854-3258; Fax: (212) 854-8121<br />
email: age@astro.columbia.edu<br />
Personal Data<br />
Born: March 12, 1954 in Milano, Italy<br />
Citizenship: Italy; USA Permanent Resident<br />
Education<br />
1982: <strong>University</strong> of Geneva, Switzerland<br />
Ph.D. in Physics<br />
1978 <strong>University</strong> of Naples, Italy<br />
“Laurea” in Physics (Cum Laude)<br />
Professional History<br />
2003 – present Co-Director, <strong>Columbia</strong> Astrophysics Laboratory<br />
<strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
2001 – present: Professor, Physics Department,<br />
<strong>Columbia</strong> Univeristy<br />
1996 – 2000: Associate Professor (with tenure), Physics Department,<br />
<strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
1991 – 1995: Associate Professor (without tenure), Physics Department,<br />
<strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
1986 – 1990 Assistant Professor, Physics Department<br />
<strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
1983 – 1985 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Physics Department,<br />
Harvard <strong>University</strong><br />
1979 – 1982 Research Assistant, Physics Department,<br />
<strong>University</strong> of Geneva<br />
1978 – 1979 Visiting Fellow, Italian National Laboratories,<br />
Frascati, Italy<br />
Special Awards and Appointments<br />
Fellow, American Physical (2000)<br />
NSF Career Award (1991)<br />
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Fellowship Award (2000 & 1990)<br />
CERN Graduate Student Research Fellowship Award (1977)<br />
1
Current Research Projects<br />
P.I. of the LXeGRIT Balloon Flight Program: see http://www.astro.columbia.edu/∼lxe/lxegrit<br />
P.I. of the XENON Dark Matter Search: see http://www.astro.columbia.edu/∼lxe/XENON<br />
Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors<br />
Postdoc: Carlo Rubbia, Harvard <strong>University</strong>, Boston, USA<br />
Ph.D.: Roger Hess, <strong>University</strong> of Geneva, Switzerland<br />
Laurea: Marco Napolitano, <strong>University</strong> of Naples, Italy<br />
Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisees<br />
Present Ph.D. students at <strong>Columbia</strong>: Jun Zhang, Kaixuan Ni<br />
Past Ph.D. students (present location): Jun Park (UCLA), Reshmi Mukherjee (Barnard College), Danli<br />
Chen (industry), Fang Xu (industry), Alessandro Curioni (Yale)<br />
Present Postdocs at <strong>Columbia</strong>: Pawel Majewski, Masaki Yamashita, Bhartendu Singh, Sharmila Kamat<br />
Past postdocs (present location): Uwe Oberlack (Rice <strong>University</strong>), Masanori Kobayashi (Waseda <strong>University</strong>),<br />
Masayo Suzuki (RIKEN, Japan), Alexsey Bolotnikov (BNL), Valeri Egorov (industry)<br />
2
Change language