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Michiko Minty

Associate Chair for Accelerators and Applications, Accelerator Division Head, Collider Accelerator Department

Michiko Minty

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Collider Accelerator Department
Bldg. 911B
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-3334
(631) 394-4054
[email protected]

Michiko Minty is Associate Chair for Accelerators and Applications and head of the Accelerator Division in the Collider Accelerator Department.  The Division is responsible for safe and efficient operation of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and user facilities including the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL), the BNL Isotope Production Facility (BLIP), and the Tandem Van de Graaff Facility (TVDG).   

Prior to joining BNL in 2008, Dr. Minty held appointments at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (1991-1999), working on the Stanford Linear Accelerator, the Stanford B-Factory and the Next Linear Collider, and at DESY in Germany (1999-2005), working on the world’s only electron-ion collider to date (HERA) and on R&D for the European X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL). Minty held post-doc positions with the University of Michigan (1991) and at SLAC (1991-1994).  

Michiko was elected to the APS Division of Physics of Beams (DPB) Executive Committee (2009 - 2012) and to the APS DPB chair line (2017 - 2020), serving as chair in 2019. She has taught at numerous particle accelerator schools in the US, Europe and Russia, was recipient of the US Particle Accelerator School (USPAS) Teaching award in 2023, and together with Frank Zimmermann (CERN) authored the textbook “Measurement and Control of Charged Particle Beams”.

Expertise | Education | Appointments | Awards


Expertise

Measurement and Control of Charged Particle Beams

Education

Minty earned her bachelor's degrees in mathematics and german literature in 1986.  She received her PhD from Indiana University in 1991 on the topic of polarization preservation using Siberian snakes.

Professional Appointments

2008 - present: staff physicist - Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)

2000 - 2005 : staff physicist - Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY, Germany) 

1994 - 2000: staff physicist - Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)

1995 (sabbatical, July/August): High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK, Japan)

1991 - 1994: research associate - Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)

1986 - 1991: research assistant - Indiana University Cyclotron Facility (IUCF) 

Awards & Recognition

Member of the American Physical Society, APS (since 1986). 

APS Fellow (2016)

Election to the Executive Committee of the APS Division of the Physics of Beams, DPB (2009-2012).

Election to the APS DPB Executive Committee chairline (2017-2020) with service as APS DPB chair in 2019. 

IEEE Senior member (2023).

United States Particle Accelerator School (USPAS) teaching award (2023).

Michiko Minty

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Collider Accelerator Department
Bldg. 911B
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-3334
(631) 394-4054
[email protected]