Victoria Greene

Senta Victoria (Vicki) Greene is an American experimental high-energy physicist, the Stevenson Professor of Physics at Vanderbilt University, where she is also Director of Graduate Studies in physics and Director of Diversity, Equity, and Engagement for the College of Arts and Science.[1] Her research involves the properties of the quark–gluon plasma,[2][3] and the shapes of jets in heavy ion collisions.[4]

Education and career

Greene majored in physics and mathematics at the University of Tennessee, graduating in 1984 with highest honors. She went to Yale University for graduate study in physics, earning a M.Phil. and M.S. in 1987 and completing her Ph.D. in 1992.[5]

After postdoctoral research at the University of Colorado Boulder, she joined Vanderbilt University as an assistant professor in 1994,[5] the first female faculty member in her department.[2] She was tenured as an associate professor in 2000, and was promoted to full professor in 2006. She served as executive dean of the College of Arts and Science from 2008 to 2011, following which she became senior associate dean.[5]

Greene is a member of the US Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, ex-officio as chair of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society (APS).[2] She has also chaired the APS Committee on the Status of Women in Physics, in 2012.[5][2] Her research collaborations include the PHENIX and sPHENIX experiments on the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.[2]

Recognition

Vanderbilt named Greene as the Stevenson Professor of Physics in 2013.[6] She was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2014 "for her contributions to the field of nuclear physics and dedicated service to the community in promoting science to the general public and enhancing the participation of women and minorities in science".[7]

References
  1. "Victoria Greene", Faculty biographies, Vanderbilt College of Arts & Science, retrieved 2023-01-07
  2. NSAC Members: 2022 Membership List, NSAC, 16 May 2022, retrieved 2023-01-07; see also linked member biography
  3. "World's Largest Atom Smashers Produce World's Smallest Droplets", Research News, Vanderbilt University, 2 October 2015, retrieved 2023-01-07
  4. "Virtual science: Arts and Science physicists conduct experiments from 4,600 miles away" (PDF), arts and science: The magazine of Vanderbilt University's College of Arts and Science, pp. 20–21, Spring 2012, retrieved 2023-01-07
  5. Curriculum vitae (PDF), 3 September 2013, retrieved 2023-01-07
  6. "Event celebrates 12 Vanderbilt endowed chair holders", VUMC Reporter, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 30 August 2013, retrieved 2023-01-07
  7. "Fellows elected in 2014", APS Fellows archive, retrieved 2023-01-07
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