Ranny Budnik

Research

In short: Dark matter, direct detection, Liquid noble gases, Xenon, radiation detection, astrophysics, radiation hydrodynamics, relativistic shocks, cosmic rays, Supernovae, radiation mediated shocks.

A little bit longer: I am now working as a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Elena Aprile's Xenon group in Columbia University on the design, building, running and data analysis of dark matter detectors: Xenon100 and the future detector Xenon1T.

My fellowship was generously contributed by the Weizmann Institute of Science, where I completed my PhD in 2009.

In the past I have also conducted theoretical research in high energy astrophysics, focusing on relativistic shocks, radiation mediated shocks, cosmic rays and relativistic supernovae (my PhD), and experimental research on the physics of radiation detectors based on gas electron multiplication (THGEM).

Publications

An updated list of my publications can be found here.

Contact

My email address is my first name at astro dot columbia dot edu.

Links

http://xenon.astro.columbia.edu/ - Elena Aprile's group in Columbia University