Dr. Abigail A. Bickley, PhD
Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering
Other Experience
7/21 - Present Title: AFTAC Endowed Term Chair for Nuclear Treaty Monitoring
7/12-7/15 Title: Nuclear Science and Technology Analyst, Department: Nuclear Materials Division, Materials Directorate
Institution: Air Force Technical Applications Center
Responsibilities: Principal author of over 100 peer reviewed technical data analysis publications. Nuclear sample evaluation includes determination of measurements to be made, assessment of data quality collected with a wide variety of scientific instruments commonly used in the fields of chemistry, materials science, physics and engineering and construction of a narrative of the origin and meaning of the samples.
10/04-3/07 Title: Nuclear Physics Research Associate, Department: Department of Physics
Institution: University of Colorado
Responsibilities: Coordinated multi-national collaboration in analysis and submission of J/Psi publication. Designed, engineered and commissioned a multi-element plastic scintillation detector to detect charged particle radiation from heavy ion collisions (ROOT, GEANT4). On call expert for electronics, data acquisition and triggering software (C++, Perl, Fortran, psql, Condor).
8/01-9/04 Title: Nuclear Chemistry Research Assistant, Department: Chemistry and Biochemistryhesis
Title: “Charged Antiparticle to Particle Ratios Near Mid-Rapidity in d+Au and p+p Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV”
Responsibilities: Simulated, designed and engineered a plastic scintillatorel 2 trigger detector for detecting charged particle radiation from heavy ion collisions (C++). Developed software tools for extracting data of interest from a multi-layered silicon spectrometer (C++, GEANT4, ROOT).
6/01-8/01 Title: Nuclear Chemistry Teaching Assistant, Program: Nuclear Chemistry Summer School
Institution: American Chemical Society and Brookhaven National Lab.
Responsibilities: Supervised undergraduate students in a 10 week, intensive nuclear chemistry lecture and laboratory course.
8/00-6/01 Title: Chemistry Teaching Assistant, Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Institution: University of Maryland
Responsibilities: Supervised undergraduate general chemistry students in the laboratory. Provided pre-laboratory lectures and laboratory grades.
Synergistic Activities
- Referee for the Journal of Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems
- Referee for the Journal of Radiation Effects Research and Engineering
- Referee for the NA-22 program for the National Nuclear Security Administration of the US Department of Energy.
- Referee for Physical Review C
- Program reviewer for the US Department of Energy Office of Nonproliferation and Verification Research and Development
- Referee for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program for the US Department of Energy