Dr. Katherine Harkay (right) accepts the Outstanding Alumni Award from Prof. Nick Giordano, Dept. Head of Physics
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Dr. Katherine Harkay received her PhD from Purdue University in 1993, supported through the Fermilab Doctoral Program in Accelerator Physics and under the direction of Prof. Lazslo Gutay. She joined the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory that same year and served as Group Leader for Accelerator Physics from 2003-2008. Since 1999, she has played a lead role in the use of retarding field analyzers to measure the electron cloud distribution in a high-energy storage ring. She is presently collaborating on characterizing the electron cloud at the CESR Test Accelerator, a proposed test bed for the ILC Damping Ring. Dr. Harkay serves on various committees, including the Fermilab Accelerator Advisory Committee and the U.S. Particle Accelerator School Program Committee.
Department of Physics