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Justin Vandenbroucke
Justin Vandenbroucke is an associate professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with a joint appointment in the Astronomy Department. His work at WIPAC includes research in gamma-ray and neutrino astronomy and cosmic rays. Vandenbroucke is the principal investigator for the Distributed Electronic Cosmic-Ray Observatory, DECO, a citizen science project that allows users around the world to detect cosmic rays and other energetic particles with their cell phones and tablets. n addition to his work with DECO, Vandenbroucke is a member of the IceCube, Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory, and Fermi collaborations. Vandenbroucke’s complete CV is available to download.
Select Publications
Observation of High-Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos in Three Years of IceCube Data
IceCube Collaboration: M. G. Aartsen et al (Journal Article) Physical Review Letters 113 (2014) 101101; e-print archive arXiv:1405.5303 [astro-ph.HE]arxiv.org | journals.aps.org
Fundamental physics with charged particle measurements at the Cherenkov Telescope Array
J. Vandenbroucke, B. Humensky, J. Holder, R. A. Ong(Journal Article) arXiv:1305.0022 [astro-ph.HE] 2013
arxiv.org
Discovery of a GeV blazar shining through the Galactic plane
J. Vandenbroucke et al. (Journal Article) Astrophysical Journal Letters 718 (2010) L166-L170
iopscience.iop.org | arxiv.org
Search for acoustic signals from ultrahigh energy neutrinos in 1500 km^3 of sea water
N. Kurahashi, J. Vandenbroucke, and G. Gratta(Journal Article) Physical Review D 82, 073006 (2010)
journals.aps.org | arxiv.org
Data Acquisition Embedded in the Antarctic Ice Sheet
J. Vandenbroucke(Journal Article) Embedded Computing Design magazine (2008)
embedded-computing.com
Honors and Awards
- UW–Madison Honored Instructor (2014)
- NASA Einstein Fellowship (2012–2013)
- Kavli Fellowship (2009–2012)
- US Antarctic Service Medal (2011)
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2004–2007)
- Stanford University Firestone Medal for excellent undergraduate research (2002)
CONTACT INFORMATION
Department of Physics
4114 Chamberlin Hall
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
222 W Washington Ave
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Madison, WI 53703