Ruth Van de Water

Ruth Van de Water is an assistant physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory. She was also named a finalist in the postdoctoral category of the New York Academy of Sciences’ Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in 2011. Van de Water was one of six postdoctoral fellows and seven university faculty members chosen as finalists out of 150 applications for that year. Of those, four were chosen as winners.

Research

Van de Water's work involves computer modeling of nuclear reactions using lattice quantum chromodynamics. Her work is performed on supercomputers including the New York Blue supercomputer, as well as and computing facilities at both Argonne and Fermi National Laboratories, to make numerical computations for formulating precise theoretical predictions.

Education and career

Van de Water earned her B.S. in physics from the College of William and Mary in 2000. She then hearned her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2005. After this, she went on to do postdoctoral research at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory from 2005 to 2008 before joining Brookhaven Lab as a Goldhaber Distinguished Fellow in 2008.

In the year 2011, she became an assistant physicist at Brookhaven. Van de Water has been honored with several awards from the University of Washington, Seattle, and the College of William and Mary for her outstanding research and academic achievement. in 2007, she also was a finalist for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Pappalardo Fellowship in Physics.

Sources

• "Ruth Van de Water". Blavatnik Awards. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
• "Brookhaven Lab's Ruth Van de Water Receives 2011 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists" (Press release). Brookhaven National Labs. 23 November 2011.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Department of Energy document: "Brookhaven Lab's Ruth Van de Water Receives 2011 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists".