Pinghan chu

Dr. Pinghan Chu is a scientist at the P-1 group of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). He received his PhD in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011, where he worked on the "dressed spin technique" in the neutron electric dipole moment experiment with Professor Jen-Chieh Peng. After earning his degree, he joined Professor Haiyan Gao at Duke University to research exotic spin-dependent interactions. In 2014, he joined Dr. Steve Elliott's group at LANL, where he studied neutrinoless double-beta decays in 76Ge using high-purity germanium detectors. This work earned him the Small Team Distinguished Performance Award in 2018, and he was converted to a staff scientist at LANL in 2019. In 2021, he received the LDRD Early Career Award from LANL. Dr. Chu has also been involved in other projects at LANL, including research on neutrino physics,dark matter searches and radiography.