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About Betty Young

Professor Young received a B.S. degree in Physics from San Francisco State University. In 1990, she received a Ph.D. from Stanford University where she worked on the development of cryogenic particle detectors with superconducting phonon sensors. After graduate school, she spent three years as a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Particle Astrophysics at UC Berkeley. Since coming to Santa Clara in 1994, Professor Young has established a research group at Santa Clara University and continues to work with the multi-institutional Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) collaboration. In addition, she and her students work closely with the quantum sensors group of Professor Kent Irwin at Stanford / SLAC.

Positions

2015 - Present Department Chair, Santa Clara University ‐ Department of Physics
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2014 - Present Lee and Seymour Graff Professor II (Endowed), Santa Clara University
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2006 - Present Professor, Santa Clara University ‐ Department of Physics
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1991 - Present Research Scholar / Visiting Scholar, Stanford University
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2000 - 2006 Associate Professor, Santa Clara University ‐ Department of Physics
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1994 - 2000 Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University ‐ Department of Physics
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Education

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1991 - 1994 U.C. Berkeley, Center for Particle Astrophysics, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California - Berkeley
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1991 Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University
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1984 - 1990 Ph.D., Stanford University
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1978 - 1982 B.A. in Physics (Magna Cum Laude), San Francisco State University
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Research Works (93)