Anna Stasto

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Anna Stasto
NationalityPolish
Alma mater Jagiellonian University
University of Durham
Known forResearch on quantum chromodynamics
Scientific career
Fields Particle physics
Nuclear physics
Institutions Pennsylvania State University
Thesis QCD analysis of deep inelastic lepton-hadron scattering in the region of small values of the bjorken parameter x  (1999)
Doctoral advisor Jan Kwiecinski
Website science.psu.edu/physics/people/ams52

Anna Maria Stasto is a Polish particle physicist and a Professor of Physics at Pennsylvania State University. [1]

Stasto studied Physics at Jagiellonian University, graduating in 1996. She completed her PhD in 1999, which was awarded jointly by the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Durham University. She was supervised by Jan Kwiecinski, with additional support from Alan Martin. [1]

Stasto was a research associate in the Physics Department of Brookhaven National Laboratory from 2004 to 2006. In 2008 she became Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Pennsylvania State University, while retaining a joint position at Brookhaven. [2] She received the Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator Award as well as a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2009. [3] She was promoted to Professor at Penn State in 2019. [4]

She was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2023 for her contributions to the study of quantum chromodynamics. [5] [6]

References

  1. 1 2 "Anna Stasto". Pennsylvania State University . Retrieved 28 April 2025.
  2. "RIKEN BNL Research Center Alumni". Brookhaven National Laboratory. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
  3. Greenberg, Diane (4 November 2009). "Physicist Anna Stasto Honored with DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award and Sloan Research Fellowship". Brookhaven National Laboratory. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
  4. "Penn State promotions in academic rank, effective July 1, 2019". Penn State. 20 June 2019. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
  5. "Division of Nuclear Physics Fellowship". American Physical Society . Retrieved 28 April 2025.
  6. Sholtis, Sam (27 November 2023). "Three Penn State faculty members elected as Fellows of the APS". Eberly College of Science. Penn State . Retrieved 28 April 2025.