University of Oregon Media Relations

UO physicist Stephanie A. Majewski is among 35 U.S. scientists chosen to receive substantial funding for the next five years under the U.S. Department of Energy’s Early Career Research Program.

The program is designed to bolster the nation’s scientific workforce by providing support to select researchers during the crucial early career years, when many scientists do their most formative work.

Majewski, an assistant professor, joined the UO Department of Physics in 2012 after five years as a postdoctoral research associate at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. She was actively involved as part of the Brookhaven lab’s team in the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva.

At the UO, she continues working at ATLAS. She is installing demonstration hardware into the detector for the next phase of experiments when the Large Hadron Collider resumes full operations next year. Her research interests include high-energy physics and supersymmetry, which proposes that each fundamental particle has a more massive, not-yet-discovered partner.

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