Jayson Vavrek
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Gorin,Michael Anthony,
MGorin@lbl.gov
Jayson Vavrek is a Research Scientist in the Applied Nuclear Physics Program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He received a BSc Physics (Hons) from the University of Alberta in 2014 and SM and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2016 and 2019. He joined LBNL as a Postdoctoral Scholar in 2019 and became a Research Scientist in 2023, and specializes in radiation detection and imaging with applications to wide-area contamination mapping, nuclear treaty verification, and detector characterization/optimization.
Area of Interest
- Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
- Interdisciplinary Engineering
- Other Physical Sciences
- Biomedical Engineering
- Geochemistry
Education
- PhD|Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States|2019
- SM|Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States|2016
- BSc (Hons)|University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada|2014
