Jeffrey Hangst

Jeffrey Scott Hangst is an experimental particle physicist at Aarhus University, Denmark, and founder and spokesperson of the ALPHA collaboration at the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) at CERN, Geneva. He was also one of the founding members and the Physics Coordinator of the ATHENA collaboration at the AD facility.

He obtained his bachelor’s in physics and master’s in nuclear science engineering in 1980 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, followed by a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago in 1992.

Awards and recognition

Hangst has received the following awards and recognition for his research works in physics. European Physical Society's 1996 accelerator award for a young scientist for his work on laser cooling of stored ion beams in the ASTRID storage ring in Aarhus. Recipient of the John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research, 2011, for the introduction and use of innovative plasma techniques that produced and demonstrated the trapping of antihydrogen.