Current & Past Fellows
Fellowship Awards
Panofksy Fellows
Since the Panofsky Fellowship award was created in 1989, there have been more than 30 Fellows performing research at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in experimental and theoretical particle physics, astrophysics, and accelerator physics.
Starting with fellowships awarded in 2015, we expanded the scope of the Panofsky Fellowship to encompass the full range of scientific research at SLAC.
Explore the research of current and past Panofsky Fellows below.
Panofsky Fellows Areas of Research
| NAME | YEAR | RESEARCH |
|---|---|---|
| Ann Wang | 2025 | Next-generation, ultra-sensitive dark matter detectors |
| Zhurun (Judy) Ji | 2024 | Exotic, Topological States of Matter in Quantum Materials |
| Julia Gonski | 2023 | Machine Learning Applications for New Physics |
| Kelly Stifter | 2023 | Quantum Sensors and SuperCDMS experiments |
| Chelsea Bartram | 2022 | Axion Detection with Quantum Devices |
| Brian Lenardo | 2022 | Sensing Modalities for Neutrino Physics |
| NAME | YEAR | RESEARCH FIELD | CURRENT POSITION HELD |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auralee Edelen | 2020-2025 | Machine Learning Applications to Accelerator Control | Lead Scientist, SLAC |
| Wai Ling (Kimmy) Wu | 2020-2025 | Particle Astrophysics, Cosmology, and CMB Study | Asst. Professor, Caltech |
| Pete Dahlberg | 2021 - 2024 | Biological Function | Asst. Professor, Photon Science, SLAC |
| Ben Ofori-Okai | 2021 - 2024 | High Energy Density Matter | Asst. Professor, Photon Science, SLAC |
| Daniel Gruen | 2019 - 2021 | Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology | Professor/Chair, Astrophysics, Cosmology, & AI, University Observatory of the Ludwig-Maximilians - Universität München |
| Caterina Vernieri | 2018 - 2022 | Fundamental Forces of Nature | Assistant Professor SLAC/Stanford |
| Emma McBride | 2018 - 2022 | Investigation of warm dense matter using X-ray scattering | UKRI Future Leaders Fellow Queen's University Belfast |
| Franklin Fuller | 2017 - 2022 | Mining big data to understand catalysts | Machine Learning Engineer, Unlearn.AI, Redwood City, CA |
| Cornelius Gati | 2017 - 2020 | Biomolecules Imaging | Assistant Professor University of Southern California |
| Taisia Gorkhover | 2016 - 2020 | X-Ray Nanoparticle Holography | Professor University of Hamburg |
| Michael Kagan | 2016 - 2021 | Experimental Particle Physics | Senior Scientist SLAC |
| Zeeshan Ahmed | 2015 - 2020 | Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology | Associate Professor SLAC/Stanford |
| Agostino Marinelli | 2015 - 2020 | Accelerator Science & Research | Assistant Professor SLAC/Stanford |
| Giacinto Piacquadio | 2012 - 2015 | Experimental Particle Physics | Associate Professor Stony Brook University |
| Eduardo Rozo | 2012 - 2014 | Particle Astrophysics | Professor University of Arizona |
| Joel England | 2010 - 2013 | Accelerator Physics | Lead Scientist SLAC |
| Yasunobu Uchiyama | 2008 - 2013 | Particle Astrophysics | Professor Rikkyo University |
| Andy Haas | 2008 - 2011 | Experimental Particle Physics | Associate Professor New York University |
| Ariel Schwartzman | 2006 - 2008 | Experimental Particle Physics | Professor SLAC/Stanford |
| Saurabh Jha | 2006 - 2007 | Particle Astrophysics | Professor Rutgers University |
| Eric Colby | 2000 - 2005 | Accelerator Physics | Sr. Technical Advisor Office of High Energy Physics, Office of Science, DOE |
| Colin Jessop | 1998 - 2003 | Experimental Particle Physics | Professor University of Notre Dame |
| Frank Zimmermann | 1997 - 1999 | Accelerator Physics | Senior Scientist Center for European Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Tor Raubenheimer | 1994 - 1997 | Accelerator Physics | Professor SLAC/Stanford |
| Emlyn Hughes | 1992 - 1996 | Experimental Particle Physics | Professor Columbia University |
| Lance Dixon | 1989 - 1992 | Elementary Particle Theory | Professor SLAC/Stanford |
