Andrea Richard

Education

• Ph.D., Physics, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 2018
• M.Sc., Physics, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 2014
• B.Sc., Physics, Mathematics, Muskingum University, New Concord, OH, 2011

Academic Positions

• Assistant Professor, Ohio University, 2024 – present
• Adjunct Researcher, Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University, 2021 - present
• Postdoctoral Researcher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2021 – 2023
• Postdoctoral Researcher and Nuclear Science and Security Consortium Fellow, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University, 2018 – 2021

Research

Andrea is a low-energy nuclear physics experimentalist. Her current research interests include:

• Statistical nuclear physics
• Experimental nuclear astrophysics
• Synthesis of heavy elements in the universe
• Neutron-capture cross section measurements for radioactive nuclei
• Applied nuclear physics
• Nuclear Structure

Select Publications

• D. Mücher, A. Spyrou, M. Wiedeking, M. Guttormsen, A. Larsen, F. Zeiser, C. Harris, A. L. Richard, et al. “Extracting Model-Independent Nuclear Level Densities Away from Stability” Phys. Rev. C. Letter 107 (2023).
• A. Voinov, N. Alanazi, S. Akhtar, S. Dhakal, R. Giri, S. Grimes, T. Massey, Z. Meisel, A. L. Richard, et al. “Spin Cutoff Factor and Level Density for Ni59 from an Analysis of Compound Nuclear Reactions” Phys. Rev. C 108 (2023).
• E. Kasanda, V. Bildstein, D. Hymers, J. Easter, A. L. Richard, et al., “Range Verification in Heavy-Ion Therapy using a Hadron Tumor Marker”, Phys. Med. & Bio. 25 (2023).
• H. Schatz, et al., “Horizons: Nuclear Astrophysics in the 2020s and Beyond.”, J. Phys. G 49 (2022).
• A. L. Richard, H. L. Crawford, P. Fallon, A. Macchiavelli, et al. “Strongly Coupled Rotational Band in ³³Mg” Phys. Rev. C, 96, (2017) (Rapid Communications).

Honors

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Directorate Award, Physical and Life Sciences, Lawrence
  Livermore National Laboratory (2023)
• American Physical Society Five Sigma Physicist Award (2021)
• Nuclear Science and Security Consortium Postdoctoral Fellow (2018 – 2021)
• DOE Office of Science for Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Fellow (2016)

Membership

• Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (INPP)
• American Physical Society
  • Elected member of the Forum on Diversity and Inclusion
• GeMSS (Gender Minorities in Science Social)
• Facility for Rare Isotope Beams User Executive Committee
  • Elected as General Member