AAPT: American Association of Physics Teachers
American Association of Physics Teachers
AAPT is a professional membership association of scientists dedicated to enhancing the understanding and appreciation of physics through teaching.
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I am an Associate Teaching Professor in the Physics Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). I earned my PhD doing very high-energy astrophysics research at UCSC in 2013, after which I moved to work as a postdoc continuing my research at Stanford. This research is something I am still active in, and involves studying the most extreme processes in the Universe by working with large collaborations of scientists, all oriented toward the same goal of discovering how physics works in the most extreme environments. I currently serve as the Spokesperson for the VERITAS Collaboration, an international collaboration of around 100 scientists that uses a unique type of ground-based indirect detection method to study astrophysical gamma rays. Within my field, we are nearing a transition point where we will move to using the next generation of ground-based gamma-ray telescope, known as the Cerenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO).
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