Alex Jentsch
Associate Staff Scientist
Town of Brookhaven, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Jentsch is an Associate Staff Scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory with 11 years of experience in experimental nuclear and particle physics, specializing in detector development and large-scale data analysis for the STAR experiment and the future Electron-Ion Collider. He combines advanced C++, Python, and ROOT expertise with detailed GEANT4 simulations to drive detector design, perform physics impact studies, and support accelerator-integrated hardware. Alex has led working groups contributing to major community deliverables such as the EIC Yellow Report and has convened detector teams within the ATHENA collaboration. Comfortable switching between hands-on hardware work and complex statistical analyses, he picks up new skills quickly to solve interdisciplinary research challenges. Based in the Town of Brookhaven, he brings a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to experimental problems that often sit at the intersection of simulation, instrumentation, and data science.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Nuclear and Particle Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Nuclear and Particle Physics at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (6)
epic10
geometry9
monte-carlo5
angle5
beam3
docker1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ajentsch/auau200GeVRun14Analysis
Jun 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
ajentsch/exclusive_PWG_analysis
Jul 2023 - Aug 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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