Yaşar Önel

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Professor Yaşar Önel is at one of his labs at the University of Iowa

Yaşar Önel is a Turkish-born physicist who holds Swiss and American citizenship. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from London University in 1975. He worked at the Queen Mary University of London in the United Kingdom, and Neuchatel and Geneva Universities in Switzerland before joining the University of Texas at Austin in 1986. Then, he moved to the University of Iowa in 1988. He is a tenured faculty professor.[1] of Physics at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA, USA.

He is an experimental high energy physicist[2][3][4][5][6] who has expertise in building particle physics detectors for which he has five invention disclosures. His focus is on photodetectors, optical systems, and calibrations systems used in large scale experiments. He has been a part of a number of high energy particle physics collaborations including: FERMILAB Experiment E683 (deputy spokesman), Fermilab Experiment E863 (co-spokesman), Fermilab Experiments E704, E781 and E907, SPRIT Collaboration at Brookhaven National Laboratory (spokesman), GEM Collaboration at SSC, Spinsplitter Collaboration at IUCF (co-spokesman), SING Collaboration at CERN LEAR, CALICE Collaboration, LHC-CMS Collaboration and FCC Collaboration. He has been the US coordinator and the upgrade project manager of Forward Calorimetry of the CMS at LHC[7] for many years. He is funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and previously had grants from the US NSF and NATO. He has acquired about $25 million in total from grant funding for his research activities so far.[8]

The Hadronic Forward Calorimeter of the CMS at LHC before it is lowered into the experimental cavern

Onel has more than 900 publications in peer-reviewed journals[9] and is the co-author of two books; Trends in Collider Spin Physics,[10] and Spin and Polarization Dynamics in Nuclear & Particle Physics.[11] He has been James Van Allen Natural Sciences Fellow since 1998[12] and American Physical Society (APS) Fellow since 2008[13]

He has supervised more than 15 Ph.D. students at the UI since 1988. Most of them are working at different universities in the US and abroad as a faculty and some of them are working in the private sector, running R&D departments or running their own companies. He has been serving in the NSF&CMS Education and Outreach Committee for a number of years and he is an Iowa team mentor of the QuarkNet project at Fermilab.[14][15][16][17]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Yasar Onel - Department of Physics & Astronomy - College of Liberal Arts & Sciences - The University of Iowa". physics.uiowa.edu.
  2. ^ "Universe's birth just a detection away". Now.uiowa.edu. 10 December 2015. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
  3. ^ "Iowa researchers on the hunt for new physics". Press-citizen.com. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
  4. ^ "Iowa scientists take on more 'God particle' research". The Gazette. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
  5. ^ Iowa High Energy Physics (21 March 2014). "The University of Iowa and the LHC - In Depth". YouTube.
  6. ^ Corless, Michelle. "Iowans help with research related to Nobel Prize". Wrex.com. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
  7. ^ "U.S. CMS - U.S. CMS @ Work - Safety". Uscms.org. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  8. ^ "biosketch_ONEL_17.pdf". Google Docs. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  9. ^ "Onel, Yasar - Profile - INSPIRE-HEP". inspirehep.net.
  10. ^ Y. Onel, N. Paver, and A. Penzo, Trends in Collider Spin Physics, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., 1997, 309 pp.
  11. ^ A. O. Barut, Y. Onel, and A. Penzo, Spin and Polarization Dynamics in Nuclear & Particle Physics, World Scientific Publishing Co., 1990, 372 pp.
  12. ^ "Yasar Onel Receives Van Allen Fellowship". itsnt774.iowa.uiowa.edu.
  13. ^ "APS Physics - FIP - APS Fellowship". Aps.org. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
  14. ^ "The University of Iowa High Energy Physics CMS Group". Highenergy.physics.uiowa.edu. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  15. ^ "Quarknet--Physics & Astronomy - Outreach & Engagement at Iowa". outreach.uiowa.edu. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  16. ^ "University of Iowa". Phystec.org. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  17. ^ "QuarkNet Project conducts high-energy physics teacher training at Snowmass workshop, July 1–6". News.fnal.gov. 7 June 2001. Retrieved 10 July 2017.