Heidi Schellman

Heidi Marie Schellman

Portrait of Heidi Schellman

Heidi Schellman, Head of Physics Department, Oregon State University
Born 1957
Hennepin, Minnesota
Residence Corvallis, Oregon
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley
Thesis Inclusive production of strange and vector mesons in e+ e- annihilation at 29-GeV (1984)
Doctoral advisor George H. Trilling

Heidi Marie Schellman (born 1957) is an American particle physicist at Oregon State University (OSU), where she heads the Department of Physics. She is an expert in Quantum chromodynamics.

Early life and education

Schellman was born in 1957 in Hennepin, the daughter of two chemists. Her father, John Anthony Schellman, who trained at Princeton, was a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Oregon; he was an early member of the "groundbreaking Institute of Molecular Biology"[1] and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.[2] Her mother, F. Charlotte Green, held a Ph.D. in chemistry from Stanford and had also worked at the California Institute of Technology.They married in 1954 while they were both postdoctoral fellows at the Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen, Denmark.[3] At the University of Oregon, both her parents "were known for advancing the study of protein structure, folding and stability through techniques such as circular dichroism spectroscopy".[4]

Heidi Schellman was graduated from South Eugene High School in Eugene, Oregon, in 1975.[5] She earned a B.S in mathematics in 1977 from Stanford University and an M.S and Ph.D. in physics by 1984 from the University of California, Berkeley.[2][6]

Shellman married physicist Stephen A. Wolbers in 1983.[7]

Career and research

Shellman began her career as a programmer at the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC),[8] where she learned "she liked the mixture of theory and practice in experimental physics. She describes her love of physics succinctly: 'Physicists get to build things!' ".[8]

Prior to joining the OSU faculty in 2015, she held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Chicago and Fermilab, and was on the faculty of Northwestern University,[9] where she was chair of the physics and astronomy programs at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.[8]

In 2015, Schellman was elected vice chair of the Commission on Particles and Fields within the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.[10]

Shellman's research interests include, "future high-intensity neutrino experiments and the relation between cosmology and high-energy physics".[11] She has collaborated on D-Zero and Tevatron experiments at Fermilab, researching the mass of top quarks and interactions of protons and anti-protons, and has extensively studied quantum chromodynamics perturbation theory.[9]

Honors

Schellman was an A.P. Sloan Research Fellow and a Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator. She was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1999, cited for "her leadership in QCD physics and as spokesperson of E-665, the Tevatron muon scattering experiment".[6][12] She was awarded the 2015 Mentoring Award by the American Physical Society’s Division of Particles and Fields.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Memorial set for renowned UO scientist John Schellman | Around the O". around.uoregon.edu. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  2. 1 2 "John Schellman | Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry". chemistry.uoregon.edu. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  3. ↑ "Musgrove Mortuaries & Cemeteries | John Schellman Obituary". musgroves.com. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  4. ↑ "University of Oregon's Institute of Molecular Biology Celebrates 50 Years". www.asbmb.org. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  5. ↑ "Class of 1975 (South Eugene)". southeugene1975.classquest.com. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  6. 1 2 "Heidi Schellman, Physics". www.physics.oregonstate.edu. Retrieved 2016-07-24.
  7. ↑ "Heidi M Schellman in the California Marriage Index, 1960-1985". ancestry.com. Retrieved 2016-07-27. (subscription required (help)).
  8. 1 2 3 "Dr. Heidi Schellman to Lead OSU Physics | The Corvallis Advocate". www.corvallisadvocate.com. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  9. 1 2 "Schellman, Heidi Marie - Profile - INSPIRE-HEP". inspirehep.net. Retrieved 2016-07-24.
  10. 1 2 "Movers and Shakers". Corvallis Gazette-Times. 2015-09-14. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  11. ↑ "Physics & Astronomy -- Heidi Schellman". 11.proto.weinberg.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  12. ↑ "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2016-07-24.


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