Bryan Ramson, Jr.
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Bryan Ramson is a neutrino physicist working on the intensity frontier of high-energy particle physics. He works as an associate scientist at Fermilab, where he uses his expertise in medium and high-energy nuclear physics to improve measurements of neutrino oscillations and refine our understanding of neutrino-nucleus interactions. He is a member of two large experimental collaborations: the Fermilab NuMI Off-axis ?e Appearance (NOvA) Experiment and the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), an upcoming Fermilab experiment. When not directly supporting the measurement of neutrino oscillations, he studies neutrino-nucleus interactions in the NOvA Near Detector and leads an independent R&D project to develop a new generation of hydrogen bubble chambers.
Bryan earned dual B.S.’s in Physics and Mathematics, and an M.S. in Atmospheric Sciences from Howard University in Washington, DC. He earned another M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His graduate work concerned the study of nuclear anti-matter and occurred as a visiting scholar on the Argonne/Fermilab particle physics experiment, E906/SeaQuest.
Bryan has a strong commitment to serving society scientifically, as well as socially. Before matriculating at Michigan, he was a visiting scholar at Earth Sciences Division of NASA Goddard from Howard University, working primarily on the measurement of cloud properties in the Baltimore-Washington corridor and the US Southern Great Plains region. He currently serves as a member of the Police District Council for 11th District and has engaged in various forms of community engagement around the Chicagoland area especially as it concerns science outreach and local community organizing.
Bryan is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, coming of age in the Seventh and Ninth Wards of the city. He currently resides in the West Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois. When he is not thinking about quarks and leptons or actively working for a better future, he enjoys popular television and movies, speculative fiction, exercise, performance driving, and video games.
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