Joined MCSS in Fall 2016
Bhupal Dev joins the physics department as assistant professor. His research interests include elementary particle physics, particle astrophysics, cosmology, and theoretical physics. Dev’s main research goal is to understand the new physics beyond the Standard Model that can explain the outstanding puzzles of our universe, such as the matter-antimatter asymmetry, dark matter, neutrino mass and inflation. During his early college days in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, he was inspired to take up a career in physics by attending popular science talks by eminent physicists such as Professor Jogesh Pati (Dirac Medalist) and Professor Gerard 't Hooft (Nobel laureate). He got a Young Science Fellowship from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore to spend the summer months for research, while still doing his undergraduate with Physics major at BJB College, Utkal University. Dev received his M.S. from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and joined the graduate program in Physics at University of Maryland. In his PhD thesis work with Professor Rabindra Mohapatra, he developed a new class of low-scale neutrino mass models compatible with grand unification, which has rich phenomenological implications for various current and future experiments. After earning his PhD from Maryland in 2012, he served as a Consortium postdoctoral fellow at the University of Manchester, a University Foundation fellow at the Technical University of Munich, and most recently, as a senior postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, before moving to Washington University. He lives in University City with his wife, who is a biomedical engineer, and his hobbies include badminton, biking and hiking.
