H. Lee Sawyer, Jr.

Curriculum Vita

Work Address:  
316 Carson-Taylor Hall, 
600 W. Arizona Ave.
Louisiana Tech University 
Ruston, LA 71272 
Phone: (318) 257 4053 	
FAX:   (318) 257 4228	
E-mail: sawyer@phys.latech.edu , sawyer@fnal.gov 	

Employment History:

Currently: Charles & Nelwyn Spruell Endowed Professor of Physics and with 
	   an administrative appointment as Academic Director of Chemistry and Physics 
	   at Louisiana Tech University. 

Previous employment :
    2004 – 2005: Associate Professor of Physics, Louisiana Tech University
    1997 – 2003: Assistant Professor of Physics, Louisiana Tech University
    1992 - 1996: Postdoctoral Researcher, The University of Texas at Arlington.
    1991       : Postdoctoral Researcher, The Florida State University.

Education:

    Ph. D.,1991, Physics, The Florida State University. 
    B.S., 1985, Physics, Northeast Louisiana University. 


Research Activities

For the past several years, my primary research association has been with the D0 experiment at Fermilab. 
I joined D0 during Run I, as a postdoc at the University of Texas at Arlington. During the upgrades for 
Run II,I started a high energy physics group at Louisiana Tech University. Our group took part in building 
and installing the Intercryostat Detector for Run II, and during the last several years we have been active 
in all aspects of the experiment. The Louisiana Tech group now consists of three faculty, two postdocs, and 
several students, and I consider our success one of my major accomplishments as a high energy physicst.

In addition to D0, I am active in detector R&D for the proposed International Linear Collider. I am working 
on two projects at Louisiana Tech, one involving simulations and prototypes for tracking in the intermediate 
to forward region, and another involving hardon calorimetry. The Louisiana Tech group has also recently joined 
the ATLAS experiment at the LHC, through a partnership with Brookhaven National Laboratory. (I had previously 
worked on ATLAS while at UT-Arlington.)

My prior research activities include the E711 fixed target experiment at Fermilab, the ALEPH experiment at LEP, 
and the proposed SDC experiment at the SSC.

I am the department head for Physics at Louisiana Tech, and I also serve on the national council for the Society 
of Physics Students and Sigma Pi Sigma.