Usha Mallik
Professor
            
                          Biography
    
                          Research:
- Physics immediately following the Big Bang
 - Physics projects at LHC (ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider); Work on Silicon Pixel detector and its upgrade; Upgrade of Liquid Argon Electromagnetic Calorimeter
 - R&D on the Future Electron Positron Linear Collider (at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and CERN)
 - Students start with courses and initial research at Iowa, then move to a major lab to complete their thesis research
 - Students develop skills in fast electronics, real-time data processing, and software
 - Employment opportunities in academia, major labs, industry
 
Vita:
- Ph.D., CCNY (of CUNY), 1978
 - Professor, experimental particle physics
 - Fellow, American Physics Society, 1996
 - Fellow of University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, 2007-2012, 2012-2017, 2017-2022
 - Member of the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel,1999 - 2002
 - P.I. of the DOE grant of the HEP group at The University of Iowa
 - Member of Committee on Education of the American Physical Society, 2003-2005
 - Member of Committee on International Scientific Affairs of the American Physical Society, 2005-2007
 - Member of Forum of Physics Society Executive committee of the American Physical Society, 2015-2018
 - Member of Committee on Freedom of Scientists of the American Physical Society, 2015-2018
 
Research areas
            - experimental elementary particle physics