Biographical Sketch

 

Michael E. Levi

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley, California 94720

 

 

Professional Preparation

1977                 B.A. (Physics)  Harvard University

1984                 Ph.D. (Physics) Harvard University

1984 – 85          Scientific Associate (Postdoctoral Position), CERN

1985 – 87          Research Associate (Postdoctoral Position), Stanford University                      

 

Appointments

2002 – now       Senior Space Fellow, Space Sciences Laboratory, Univ. California, Berkeley

1992 – now       Senior Staff Scientist/Physicist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

1987 – 1992      Divisional Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

1985 – 1987      Research Associate, Stanford University

1984 – 1985      Scientific Associate, CERN

1975 – 1976      Research Assistant/Xray Astronomy, Naval Research Laboratory

 

Current Research Activity

SNAP Project Director and Co-Principal Investigator, see http://snap.lbl.gov.

SNAP Group Leader at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

 

Honors and Awards

Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2000

Outstanding Performance Award, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1997

 

Research Experience

See research statement.

•         Developer of SNAP Satellite and Research program with Saul Perlmutter

•         Led Detector R&D program in silicon-based single-photon detectors 1996-2000

•         Developed electronics system for particle detector at the BaBar experiment

•         Particle tracking systems and data acquisition for Mark-II experiment at SLAC

•         Precision measurement of the Z-boson mass at Mark-II experiment at SLAC

•         Intermediate vector boson properties at UA1 experiment at CERN

•         Discovery of the decays of the W-boson into the tau lepton at UA1

•         Measurement of Intermediate Vector Boson properties at the Mark-II experiment

•         Measurement of tau lepton properties at the Mark-II experiment

 

Selected Research Publications

See full publications list.

1.       M. Levi etal., “The Research and Development Program for the SNAP dark energy experiment”, Nucl. Instr. Meth. A572, 521 (2007).

2.       SNAP Collaboration (G. Aldering, et al.), Supernova / Acceleration Probe: A Satellite Experiment to Study the Nature of the Dark Energy, astro-ph/0405232.

3.       Babar Collaboration (B. Aubert et al.). Measurement of CP Violating Asymmetries in B0 Decays to CP Eigenstates. Phys.Rev.Lett.86:2515-2522,2001

4.       D. Groom, S. Holland, M. Levi, etal, “Back-illuminated, fully-depleted CCD image sensors for use in optical and near-IR astronomy”  Nucl. Instr. Meth. A442, p216 (2000).

5.       S.F. Dow, A. Karcher, M.E. Levi, et al., “Design and Performance of the Elefant Digitizer IC for the Babar Drift Chamber”  IEEE Trans.Nucl.Sci.46:785-791,1999.

6.       W+W- Interactions and the Search for the Higgs Boson. By M. Levi, LBL-28556, Jul 1989, Presented at 1989 SLAC Summer Institute on Particle Physics.

7.       Extraction Line Spectrometers for SLC Energy Measurement. By MARK-II Collaboration, SLC Final Focus Group (SLAC), SLAC-SLC-PROP-(2), n.d. (Apr 1986) 78pp.

8.       C. Albajar, et al., Events with Large Missing Transverse Energy at the CERN Collider:  W -> Tau Neutrino Decay and Test of tau - mu e Universality at Q2 = m(W2). Paper 1,  Phys. Lett. 185B:233, 1987.

9.       UA1 Results on W± and Z0 Production and Decay. By M. Levi, Proceedings of the Thirteenth SLAC Summer Institute on Particle Physics, ed. E. Brennan, SLAC-296, Jan 1986.

10.   Measurement of Electroweak Parameters in Leptonic Processes. By M. Levi, UMI 84-19369-mc, Jan 1984, 138pp. Ph.D. Thesis.

11.   Weak Neutral Currents in Lepton Pair Production at 29 GeV. By M.E. Levi, C. Blocker, J. Strait, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett.;51(2253) 1983.

12.   Precise Measurement of Tau Decay Charged Particle Multiplicity Distribution. By C.A. Blocker, M.E. Levi, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett.;49(1369) 1982.

13.   Experimental Studies of the Acoustic Signature of Proton Beams Traversing Fluid Media. By M.E. Levi, et al., IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.  Ns-25  No.1 (1978) 325-332.

14.   Cruddace, R.; Fritz, G.; Levi, M.; Shulman, S., X-Ray Imaging Scintillation Detectors, Advances in Space Exploration: COSPAR Symposium Series, Oxford: Pergamon, 1978, p.291.

 

Recent Competitive Research Grant Awards

·         Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Nearby Supernova Factory (2005).

·         NASA Research Opportunities in Space and Exploration Sciences: Advanced Mission Concept Studies: Einstein Probes: SNAP-L, A Dedicated Space Experiment to Study Dark Energy (2006).

·         NASA Research Announcement 03-OSS-01 Mission Concepts: Einstein Probes: The Supernova / Acceleration Probe (SNAP): Science, A Type 1 Proposal for a Dark Energy Probe (2004).

·         NASA Research Announcement 03-OSS-01 Mission Concepts: Einstein Probes:

·         Probing Dark Energy with the Supernovae / Acceleration Probe (SNAP): A Type 2 Proposal for a Joint DOE-NASA Mission (2004).

·         NASA Research Announcement 03-OSS-01 Mission Concepts: Einstein Probes: A Type 2 Proposal, NASA contributions to the SNAP Mission (2004).

·         LBNL LDRD: Foundations for a Supernova / Acceleration Probe

·         USAF: New Radiation Tolerant Imagers, Phase II

·         NASA ROSS:  NRA 99-OSS-01 SPA, Space Astrophysics Detector Development: Radiation Tolerant CCD’s with Extended near-IR and near-UV Sensitivity (2000).

·         NSF Astronomy: Astronomy Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation, Fully Depleted 300 micron Thick Backside Illuminated CCD’s with Extended Blue and Infrared Sensitivity (1999).

 

Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors:

Graduate: Prof. Roy F. Schwitters, Harvard University

Postdoctoral: Prof. Carlo Rubbia, CERN

Postdoctoral: Prof. Gary Feldman, Stanford University