Dr. Yury Kolomensky

Biography

Yury G. Kolomensky joined the Physics Department faculty in July 2000. He received a B.S. in Physics from St. Petersburg Technical University and an M.S. in Physics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1997, focusing his work on the spin structure of the nucleon, which earned him the 1998 Outstanding Thesis in Nuclear Physics Award from the American Physics Society. Kolomensky was also a Robert Millikan Postdoctoral Scholar at CalTech from 1997 to 2000. His research interests center around being an experimental particle physicist engaged in precision tests of electroweak theory and Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), with a focus on sensitive searches for new physics effects at low energies. He investigates the theoretical implications of strong electroweak interactions within the Standard Model, which is a finely tuned theory that describes many observed phenomena but leaves essential questions unanswered, such as the hierarchy of quark and lepton masses and the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe. Kolomensky works on significant projects including the BaBar experiment at SLAC, the CUORE project investigating neutrinoless double-beta decay in Italy, and the Mu2e experiment at Fermilab. His extensive publication record includes over 400 journal papers, highlighting his contributions to searches for new physics phenomena.

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