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.  In addition to his work with DECO, Vandenbroucke is a member of the IceCube, Cherenkov Telescope Array, 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)

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