James H. Buckley

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Professor

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253 Compton

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Physics Department, CB 1105
Washington University
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899, USA

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(314) 935-7607

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(314) 935-6219

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Gamma-ray astrophysics; optical astronomy
Astroparticle physics; multiwavelength astronomy
Direct and indirect searches for dark matter
Physics of active galaxies; origin of cosmic-rays
Photodetector development; computer architecture; development of high-speed electronics

1994	PhD. Physics, University of Chicago
1986	B.S. Engineering Physics, University of Toledo

2005-	Professor of Physics, Washington University
2001-2005	Associate Professor of Physics, Washington University
1997-2001	Assistant Professor of Physics, Washington University
1993-1997	Postdoctoral Research Associate, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
1987-1993	Research Assistantship, University of Chicago, Dept. of Physics

July 2009	Convener for TAUP 2009: International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics
July 2009	Convener for TeV Particle Astrophysics
May 2009	Fermi Cycle-2 Guest Investigator Program Proposal Review
Sept. 2006	Chairman of the IN2P3/MPI-K HESS-I I review committee
2004-2006	Member of the GLAST Users Committee
2001-2006	Member of USRA Astronomy Science Council

Acting chairman of the VERITAS executive committee, founding member of VERITAS with 17 years research experience in γ -ray astronomy
Leader of the VERITAS FADC subproject; designed and fabricated the 2000 channel FADC system and other camera electronics for the VERITAS experiment.
PI on DOE-funded technology development (ADR program) for development of high-QE AlGaN/InGaN photodetectors using molecular beam epitaxy
NASA GSRP graduate research fellow (1990-1992) working on a NASA balloon experiment (RICH) with responsibility for detector design, construction, balloon-ﬂight and scientiﬁc data analysis of a ring-imaging Cherenkov detector for cosmic-ray research

2004	The Academy of Science of St. Louis Innovation Award
1998	Department of Energy, Outstanding Junior Investigator Award
1997	The Shakti Duggal Award - 25th International Cosmic Ray Conference
1996	Smithsonian Institution Special Achievement Award
1989-1992	NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program grant