Mark Messier
Graduate Student
-- received a Ph.D. in 1999
Website: http://www.indiana.edu/~iubphys/research/faculty/Messier.shtml
Professor Mark Messier completed his undergraduate training in physics at M.I.T in 1993 and received his Ph.D from Boston University in 1999. While at Boston University, Prof. Messier began his study of neutrinos using the Super—Kamiokande detector and his doctoral thesis, “Evidence for Neutrino Mass from Observations of Atmospheric Neutrinos with Super-Kamiokande” documents the first conclusive evidence for non-zero neutrino mass. Following graduation, Prof. Messier worked as a research associate at Harvard University before joining the faculty at Indiana University in 2002. Prof. Messier is very active in the Fermilab neutrino program working on the MIPP and MINOS experiments. In 2003 he was recognized with a Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator award for development of an experiment to study muon to electron neutrino oscillations using a neutrino beam from Fermilab. He is currently co-spokesperson of this experiment, NOvA, which is expected to begin construction next year. NOvA is part of a global experimental program to measure matter/anti- matter symmetry breaking in neutrinos.
