New Faculty Member- Joining in January of 2025
Mark joins the Columbia Physics Department in January 2025 as an Assistant Professor, having spent 3 years as an Oppenheimer Distinguished Fellow at Los Alamos National Lab. This is in fact a return to Columbia, as he worked as an experimental physics Postdoc here after obtaining his PhD in Neutrino Phenomenology, from the Institute of Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP) in the University of Durham, UK. His background in theory and phenomenology, both from his PhD and Masters from University of Cambridge, still plays a pivotal role in his work today.
Mark Ross-Lonergan is an experimental particle physicist focusing on the use of modern neutrino detectors as a portal to search for and probe potential new physics beyond the Standard Model, in the so called "Dark Sector", where dark matter and new fundamental forces may live. His interests lie both in using current neutrino experiments, such as MicroBooNE and SBND, to study some of the exciting anomalous results and hints of new physics we have observed in the neutrino sector and also in the development of next generation pixelated readout Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) neutrino detectors to enable a deeper understanding of this exciting field.