Post-Doctoral Researchers

Niseem received his Bachelor of Science degree in physics from AL-AZHAR University in Cairo in 2010. He joined the Brookhaven National Laboratory as a visiting scientist in the period from 2014 to 2015, and then started his Ph.D. program in August 2015 and completed the Ph.D. in October 2018 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is now a post-doctoral research assistant at the Physics department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His current work is focused on studying the strongly interacting medium (Quark-Gluon Plasma) which is a liquid that existing at extremely high temperature and/or density.

Email : niseem@uic.edu

Jussi has been a postdoc in the experimental heavy ion group at UIC since March 2018. He got his PhD from the University of Jyväskylä on December 2017. On his thesis work he studied the jet fragmentation transverse momentum using dihadron correlations from the ALICE pp and pPb data. When he moved to UIC he switched experiments from ALICE to CMS and is now studying jet shapes in dijet events using jet-hadron correlations from the PbPb data measured by the CMS experiment.

Email : jviinika@uic.edu

Shenghui received her PhD in particle physics and atomic nuclear physics of University Science and Technology of China in 2018. She is working on STAR measurements of electrons from heavy flavor hadron decays in pp and AuAu collisions at 200 GeV.

Email : shenghui@uic.edu

Geonhee has been a postdoc in the experimental heavy-ion group at UIC since September 2019.  He got his Ph.D. from Chonnam National University in August 2019. In his thesis work, he studied the Upsilon production in PbPb and pp collisions at CMS. He is now studying the elliptic flow of prompt Jpsi and b to Jpsi which indicates the flow of the c and b quarks at CMS. He is also working on the MTD (MIP Timing Detector) project related to upgrades for the CMS detector for high-luminosity data taking. He is involved in the work on ETL (Endcap Timing Layer) detector that covers up to |eta| < 3.0 to time stamp charged particles in the event with 30 ps timing resolution. He has worked on ETROC (Endcap Timing Readout Chip) boards and LGAD (Low Gain Avalanche Detector) test.

Email : goenhee.oh@uic.edu

Xu Sun is a postdoc working in the experimental heavy-ion group at UIC. His current research interest is the performance study for the Forward Silicon Tracker prototype test stand at UIC. He is also working on the collective flow analysis of identified particles and phi-meson global spin alignment analysis of Beam Energy Scan programs on Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.

Email : xusun87@uic.edu