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Andrei Gritsan

Professional Appointments

Professor, Physics and Astronomy Department, Johns Hopkins University, since 2016

Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy Department, Johns Hopkins University, 2012 - 2016

Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy Department, Johns Hopkins University, 2005 - 2012

Postdoctoral Fellow, Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2000 - 2005

Research Assistant, Physics Department, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1996 - 2000

Professional Affiliations

Visiting Scientist, CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research, since 2006

Visiting Scientist, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, since 2005

Visiting Fellow, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, 2000 - 2008

Visiting Scholar, Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory, Cornell University, 1996 - 2000

Education

Ph.D. (2000), University of Colorado at Boulder

Recent Awards

American Physical Society Fellow (2019): For significant contributions to the discovery and to the characterization of the Higgs Boson at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, and for significant contributions to the measurement of sin2alpha at the SLAC PEP II collider.

U.S. DOE/NSF LHC Physics Center at Fermilab Distinguished Researcher (2013)

U.S. NSF (National Science Foundation) Career Award (2007)

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship (2007)

Recent Awards for Collaborative Efforts

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2025): For detailed measurements of Higgs boson properties confirming the symmetry-breaking mechanism of mass generation, the discovery of new strongly interacting particles,..

European Physical Society's High Energy and Particle Physics Prize (2013): For the discovery of a Higgs boson, as predicted by the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism.

Curriculum Vitae