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Bartosz Fornal, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Physics

Bartosz Fornal, Ph.D.
Bartosz Fornal, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Physics

Education

  • Ph.D. in Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, 2014
  • M.S. in Physics, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, 2008

Areas of Interest

Theoretical elementary particle physics

  • Gravitational waves from the early Universe
  • Particle physics models for dark matter
  • Matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe
  • Baryon and lepton number violation
  • New physics at the Large Hadron Collider
  • Astroparticle physics and cosmology

Biography

Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, Barry University, 2021 – present
  • Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Utah, 2019 – 2021
  • Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, San Diego, 2016 – 2019
  • Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Irvine, 2014 – 2016

Courses

  • PHY-201, PHY-201L (General College Physics I + Lab) 
  • PHY-202, PHY-202L (General College Physics II + Lab) 
  • PHY-211 (University Physics I) 
  • PHY-212 (University Physics II) 
  • PHY-300 (Modern Physics) 
  • PHY-355 (Introduction to Quantum Mechanics) 
  • PHY-395/495 (Research in Physics)

Selected Publications

A full list of publications can be found in: Google Scholar, INSPIRE-HEP, ORCID and Web of Science. 

Selected Talks 

  • Gravitational Wave Signatures of Particle Physics Models with Extended Gauge Symmetries, American Physical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, March 2024 
  • Using Early Universe Gravitational Waves to Test Theories of Dark Matter, Baryogenesis, and Seesaw Models, Miami 2023 Physics Conference, Fort Lauderdale, December 2023 
  • Probing Dark Matter, Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry, and Neutrino Masses with Gravitational Waves, International Conference TeV Particle Astrophysics, Naples, Italy, September 2023 
  • Probing Asymmetric Dark Matter with Gravitational Waves, American Physical Society Meeting, Las Vegas, March 2023 
  • Neutron Lifetime Anomaly, International Workshop on Hadronic Contributions to New Physics Searches, Tenerife, Spain, September 2019 
  • Dark Side of the Neutron?, International Workshop on Particle Physics at Neutron Sources, Grenoble, France, May 2018 
  • SU(5) Unification without Proton Decay, International Conference on Particles and Cosmology, Singapore, March 2018 
  • Dark Matter and Baryogenesis from Non-Abelian Gauged Lepton Number, International Conference on Cosmology, Gravitational Waves and Particles, Singapore, February 2017 
  • Baryon Number as the Fourth Color, International Conference on the Standard Theory and Beyond in the LHC Era, Albufeira, Portugal, October 2015 
  • Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model with Gauged Baryon and Lepton Numbers, International Conference on Massive Neutrinos, Singapore, February 2015

Awards

  • National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant: Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (LEAPS-MPS): Searching for the Dark Side of the Universe with Gravitational Waves, Principle Investigator: Bartosz Fornal; award amount: $173,000; awarded for the period: July 2022 – June 2024 
  • Medallion Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Barry University, 2023 
  • Henry and Grazyna A. Bauer Fellowship, California Institute of Technology, 2008 

University Governance

  • Elected Senator, Barry University Faculty Senate, 2022 – present  
  • Faculty Senate Co-Secretary, 2022 – present 
  • Executive Committee Member, 2022 – present

Selected Press Releases

Professional Memberships

Professional and Community Service

  • Manuscript referee for:
    Physical Review Letters, Physical Review D, Physics Letters B, Nuclear Physics B, Journal of High Energy Physics, European Physical Journal C, Annals of Physics, International Journal of Modern Physics A, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
  • Elementary school visits within the Scientist in Every Florida School (SEFS) program

Student Successes  

Present and past members of the Barry Gravitational Wave Group – 8 undergraduate students (Jessica Bosch, Nelleke Bunji, Zoraida Delgado, Kassandra Garcia, Alejandra Leon, Erika Pierre, Dyori Polynice, and Luka Thompson) 

  • 5 publications in Physical Review D co-authored by 8 students 
  • 6 student conference talks (International Conference TeV Particle Astrophysics in Naples, Italy, and regional APS meetings) 
  • 12 student poster presentations (national APS meetings in Las Vegas and Minneapolis, regional APS meetings) 
APS Meeting Las Vegas
APS Meeting EKU

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