Fundamental Physics with Antihydrogen Atoms

Jonathan S. Wurtele graduated from UC Berkeley with undergraduate degrees in Physics and Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Physics. Following a decade at MIT, he returned to UC Berkeley, where he is Professor of Physics. His research interests include plasma, beam, and antihydrogen physics.  He is a member of the international ALPHA collaboration at CERN, which synthesizes, traps, and conducts precision physics measurements on, antihydrogen in order to study fundamental symmetries between matter and antimatter. Wurtele’s scientific interests extend beyond traditional physics. He participated in the Berkeley Earth temperature study and spent a sabbatical year at NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress working on the science of cities. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and a co-recipient of the John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research and was a foreign research Fellow at Japan’s Institute of Space and Astronautical Science.