Faculty

Nuclear structure

• Mark A. Caprio Professor E-mail: m########caprio (at) nd (dot) edu Phone: +1 574-631-2827 Faculty web page

• S. Ragnar Stroberg Assistant Professor E-mail: s########strobe2 (at) nd (dot) edu Phone: +1 574-631-7538 Faculty web page

Nuclear astrophysics

• Grant J. Mathews Professor E-mail: g########mathews (at) nd (dot) edu Phone: +1 574-631-6919 Faculty web page

• Rebecca A. Surman Professor E-mail: r########surman (at) nd (dot) edu Phone: +1 574-631-6590 Faculty web page

Postdocs

Nuclear structure

• Bingcheng He Advisor: Ragnar Stroberg

Nuclear astrophysics

• Mengke Li Advisor: Rebecca Surman

• Yukiya Saito Advisor: Rebecca Surman

Graduate students

Nuclear structure

• Andre Johnson Advisor: Ragnar Stroberg

• Shwetha Vittal Advisor: Mark Caprio

• Zhou Zhou Advisor: Mark Caprio

Nuclear astrophysics

• Jonathan Cabrera Garcia Advisor: Timothy Beers / Rebecca Surman

• Miguel A. Correa Advisor: Grant Mathews / Arielle Phillips

• Emily Engelthaler Advisor: Grant Mathews

• Lauren Harewood Advisor: Rebecca Surman

• Ashabari Majumdar Advisor: Rebecca Surman / Peter Burns

• Pranav Nalamwar Advisor: Rebecca Surman / Evan Kirby

• Wei Sun Advisor: Grant Mathews

• Guobao Tang Advisor: Grant Mathews / Arielle Phillips

Faculty emeritus

Nuclear structure

• Stefan G. Frauendorf Professor Emeritus E-mail: s########frauend (at) nd (dot) edu Phone: +1 574-631-7538 Faculty web page

Recent former postdocs

Nuclear astrophysics

• Xilu Wang Associate Research Scientist, Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Advisor: Rebecca Surman Completed: 2021

• Nicole Vassh Research Scientist, TRIUMF Advisor: Rebecca Surman Completed: 2021

Recent graduate students

Nuclear structure

• Jakub Herko Postdoc, TRIUMF Advisor: Mark Caprio Defended: July 2024 Thesis: Ab initio description of nuclear structure and reactions in a unified framework (2024)

• Patrick J. Fasano Postdoc, Argonne National Laboratory Advisor: Mark Caprio Defended: March 2023 Thesis: Ab initio nuclear structure and electroweak properties from chiral effective field theory (2023)

• Anna E. McCoy Postdoc, TRIUMF Postdoc, Institute for Nuclear Theory (INT), University of Washington FRIB Theory Fellow @ Washington University in St. Louis (Visiting Assistant Professor, Michigan State University) Assistant Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory Advisor: Mark Caprio Defended: August 2017 Thesis: Ab initio multi-irrep symplectic no-core configuration interaction calculations (2018)

• Chrysovalantis Constantinou Postdoc, Yale University Visiting Assistant Professor, Monmouth College Computational Scientist, The Cyprus Institute Advisor: Mark Caprio Defended: September 2016 Thesis: Natural orbitals for the no-core configuration interaction approach (2017) [arXiv:1704.02363]

• Weichuan Li Postdoc, Michigan State University / Rutgers University Software Engineer, Amazon Advisors: Stefan Frauendorf / Mark Caprio Defended: May 2016 Thesis: Algebraic collective model and its application to core quasiparticle coupling (2016)

• Fengqiao Luo Ph.D., Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University Research Scientist, Amazon Machine Learning Engineer, Uber Advisor: Mark Caprio Defended: May 2014 Thesis: Can nuclear structure be revealed in a reduced model space? (2014)

• Ian Bentley Associate Professor, St. Mary's College Guest Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame Faculty web page Advisor: Stefan Frauendorf Defended: March 2010 Thesis: Wigner X resolved and photo-reaction cross-section predictions: Improvements for astrophysical calculations (2010)

Nuclear astrophysics

• Luca Boccioli Postdoc, University of California, Berkeley Advisor: Grant Mathews Defended: June 2023 Thesis: Explodability of core-collapse supernovae: Roles of neutrino-driven convection, the nuclear equation of state, and the progenitor structure (2023)

• Atul S. Kedia Postdoc, Rochester Institute of Technology Advisor: Grant Mathews Defended: June 2022 Thesis: Relativistic matter in neutron star mergers and big bang nucleosynthesis (2022)

• Trevor M. Sprouse Postdoc, Los Alamos National Laboratory Advisor: Rebecca Surman Defended: July 2020 Thesis: New techniques for the analysis of astrophysical nucleosynthesis (2020)

• Erika M. Holmbeck Postdoc, Rochester Institute of Technology NASA Hubble Fellow, The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Advisor: Rebecca Surman Defended: April 2020 Thesis: The looking-glass and beyond: Using observations and modeling of stellar actinide abundances as a window into r-process events (2020)

• Nishanth Sasankan Senior Professional Staff, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University Advisor: Grant Mathews Defended: August 2018 Thesis: Constraints on the early universe and dark energy from big bang nucleosynthesis (2018)

• MacKenzie Warren Postdoc, Michigan State University Advisor: Grant Mathews Defended: April 2016 Thesis: Neutrinos in core-collapse supernovae (2016)