Rate My Professor Jonathan Asaadi

Jonathan Asaadi is an Associate Professor of Physics and serves as Associate Chair in the Department of Physics at the University of Texas at Arlington. He earned a B.S. in Physics from the University of Iowa in 2004, an M.S. in Physics from Texas A&M University in 2007, and a Ph.D. in Physics from Texas A&M University in 2012, where his doctoral work was supervised by Prof. David Toback. After completing his Ph.D., he held a postdoctoral position at Syracuse University from 2012 to 2015 under Prof. Mitch Soderberg. Asaadi joined the faculty at UTA in the fall of 2015.

His research centers on experimental high-energy physics, with particular emphasis on neutrino physics and the development of innovative detector technologies using Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPCs). As leader of the UTA Neutrino Group, he oversees projects involving cryostat systems, purification, light detection, and cold electronics, contributing to pivotal experiments like the Liquid Argon in a Testbeam (LArIAT, co-spokesperson), MicroBooNE, Short Baseline Near Detector (SBND), ICARUS, and the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). Asaadi has received the prestigious U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Research Award in 2020 ($750,000 over five years) to advance multi-modal pixel-based noble element TPCs for neutrino mass, dark matter, and new physics searches. Additional honors include the Fermilab Neutrino Physics Fellowship (2018) and the University of Bern Albert Einstein Center Visiting Fellowship (2014). Key publications include "Observation of long-range, near-side angular correlations in proton-proton collisions at the LHC" (2010), "High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector" (2022), "Observation and studies of jet quenching in PbPb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV" (2011), "Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) conceptual design report volume 2: the physics program for DUNE at LBNF" (2015), and "Novel Liquid Argon Time-Projection Chamber Readouts" (2024). He teaches introductory undergraduate, advanced undergraduate, and graduate-level courses in physics at UTA.