Chris Wrede research homepage
I am a research associate at the Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics (CENPA) at The University of Washington (UW) in Seattle, WA, USA. My current research is in experimental nuclear physics, and is motivated by questions in astrophysics and fundamental physics. My recent nuclear astrophysics work has been focused on laboratory measurements of reactions on unstable nuclides that are produced during explosive nucleosynthesis in novae. I have also been working on low-energy experiments that test the standard model of particle physics, for example via unitarity of the CKM matrix.
I received the degree of Bachelor of Science (2000) with a major in Physics and a minor in Philosophy from the University of Victoria (UVic) in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; the degree of Master of Science (2003) from Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; and the degrees of Master of Science (2006), Master of Philosophy (2006) and Doctor of Philosophy (2008) from Yale University (Yale) in New Haven, CT, USA.
The research for my M.Sc. thesis was done at the Tri-University Meson Facility (TRIUMF) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada where I am now an off-site collaborator with the Detector of Recoils and Gamma rays of Nuclear Reactions (DRAGON) group. To see a short clip from the Discovery Channel about nuclear astrophysics research at DRAGON, click here, then click on "watch this segment now" under "Solar System Rebirth".
The nuclear astrophysics research for my Ph.D. thesis was done at the Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory (WNSL) under the supervision of Professor Peter Parker. Our group at Yale also collaborated on experiments at the Holyfield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility (HRIBF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System (ATLAS) facility at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) in Chicago, the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL) in Durham, North Carolina and the Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP) in Osaka, Japan.
Here is my physics-related Curriculum Vitae, including a list of publications.