Education:

1993  PhD,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT):
Experimental Particle Physics

Positions Held:

1993-1998 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Staff Scientist (permanent)

1998-2011 Brookhaven National Laboratory
Associate Scientist
Scientist
Scientist (tenured)
Also: Deputy Group Leader & Group Leader

2006 Visiting Scientist
Stony Brook University
Ohio State University

2011- present MDBPADS Consulting
Principal Consultant

International Scientific Collaboration Management Positions:

PHOBOS Collaboration:
1998-2000 Deputy Project Manager
2000-2002 Project Manager
2002-2005 Deputy Spokeperson
various         Acting Spokesperson (1/2001, 1/2002, 2-8/2004)

US-ATLAS-HeavyIons (part of ATLAS@CERN)
2004-2006 DOE contact/PI

Some Scientific and Technical Highlights:

• Co-invented (with Peter Steinberg) and named the “participant eccentricity” variable which, after development with Constantin Loizides and Gunther Roland, became a standard in heavy ion physics at RHIC and the LHC.
• Played a lead role in the PHOBOS discovery of “extended longitudinal scaling” in heavy ion physics.
• Invented (with advice from Bill Zajc) a fast approximate “full Coulomb correction” method for HBT used in AGS E866, PHOBOS@RHIC, and  PHENIX@RHIC.
• Modifed Lund program LEPTO for deep inelastic scattering to include kinematic azimuthal asymmetry effects to O(αs) while also debugging the code (along with derivative codes DJANGO & PEPSI).
• Fixed a non-physical target remnant “feature” in PYTHIA6.
• Collaborator in the development of the Monte Carlo modeling code BeAGLE (Benchmark eA Generator for LEptoproduction) from 2015-2023.

Selected Recent Publications:

Wan Chang et al., “BeAGLE: Benchmark eA Generator for LEptoprodution in high energy lepton nucleus collisions”,   https://inspirehep.net/literature/2072332

J.M. Campbell, M. Diefenthaler et al., “Event Generators for High-Energy Physics Experiments”,   https://inspirehep.net/literature/2055764

R. Abdul Khalek et al., “Science Requirements and Detector Concepts for the Electron-Ion Collider: EIC Yellow Report”,  https://inspirehep.net/literature/1851258

Selected High-Impact Heavy Ion Physics Publications:

B. Alver et al. (PHOBOS Collaboration), “System size, energy, pseudorapidity, and centrality dependence of elliptic flow”,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 (2007) 242302, https://inspirehep.net/literature/729951
Citations: 372 (as of 2022-06-22)
Role: Co-invented and named “participant eccentricity” introduced in this publication.

B.B. Back et al. (PHOBOS Collaboration),  “The PHOBOS perspective on discoveries at RHIC”,  Nucl. Phys. A 757 (2005) 28-101, https://inspirehep.net/literature/662061
Citations: 2439 (as of 2022-06-22)
Role: Acting Spokesperson at the time of submission.

B.B. Back et al. (PHOBOS Collaboration), “The Significance of the fragmentation region in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions”,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91 (2003) 052303
https://inspirehep.net/literature/599315/
Citations: 374 (as of 2022-06-22)
Role: Corresponding Author