Sacha Kopp                          

Age:  37

Education:
-Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 1994
-S.M., The University of Chicago, 1992
-A.B., with Honors, The University of Chicago, 1990. 


Professional Employment:
-Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Austin (2000 - present)
-Visiting Assistant Professor, Syracuse University (1997 - 1999)
-Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Syracuse University (1995 - 1997)
-Graduate Research Assistant, The University of Chicago (1990-1994)


Honors and Scholarships:
-College of Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Award, UT-Austin, May, 2004
-Chancellor's Vision Award, Syracuse University Center for Teaching and Learning, 1998.
-U.S. Department of Education G.A.A.N.N Fellowship (1990-1994).

 
Research Activities:
-The NuMI/MINOS experiment, Fermilab (2000 - present)
   - Co-chair of Beam Systematics Analysis Group which works on understanding the neutrino beam flux
   - Designed, built ion chamber arrays to monitor NuMI secondary (hadron/muon) beam
   - Designed, built Secondary Emission Monitors for proton beam from Main Injector to NuMI target


-Accelerator R&D at Fermilab (2000 - present)
   - Development of 'AC Dipole' for the Tevatron (collaboration with M. Syphers, A. Jansson)
   - Synchronization of the 8 GeV Booster and 120 GeV Main Injector accelerators for multiple 
     batch injection (collaboration with B. Pellico, E. Prebys)
   - Secondary Emission Monitors for the Main Injector and 400 MeV transfer lines.

- CLEO-III Ring-Imaging Cherenkov detector at the Cornell Electron Synchrotron Ring (1995-1999)
   - Fabrication and testing of LiF and CaF2 crystal optics from OPTOVAC, Inc. 
   - Construction of thirty 18 x 250 cm2 multiwire proportional chambers. 

-The Collider Detector at Fermilab:  Proton-Antiproton Collisions at 1800 GeV (1987 - 1995)
   - "A Direct Measurement of the W Boson Decay Width"  
   - "Measurement of the Ratio of W and Z Cross Sections in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at s^{1/2} = 1800 GeV "
   - "Search for W' in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at s^{1/2} = 1800 GeV " 
   - "The e-tau and mu-tau Decays of Top Quark Pairs Produced in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at s^{1/2} = 1800 GeV"



Service Activities:
-Co-organizer of the "5th International Workshop on Neutrino Beams and Instrumentation (NBI2005_", 
	      held at Fermilab, July 7-11, 2005.

-"Committee on University Collaboration with the Accelerator Division at Fermilab" 
  chaired committee to advise the Lab on developing collaborations with the
  universities on accelerator R&D, June 2004 - June 2005.

-Referee for Physical Review Letters, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear and Particle Science.

-Assisted organizing Summer Minority Student Research program, University of Chicago, 1992 - 1993.