Anthony Villano
Assistant Professor at University of Colorado Denver
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAnthony Villano is an experimental particle and nuclear physicist and assistant professor at the University of Colorado Denver with 11 years of postdoctoral and faculty experience searching for dark matter and other new fundamental interactions. He designs sensitive measurements and bespoke instrumentation—ranging from cryogenic detectors and dilution refrigerators to underground background and calibration studies—to push the limits of laboratory-based fundamental physics. Previously he led detector testing and data analysis for the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search at the University of Minnesota and worked on radioactive beams and neutrinoless double-beta decay matrix elements at the University of Michigan. Based in Denver, he combines hands-on experimental expertise with a track record of mentoring and building research groups, and he brings the dual background of physics and nuclear engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to tackle precision measurement challenges.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
English
Github Skills (31)
open-access9
journal9
rotation9
spectrum8
ssreflect7
academia7
analytical7
risk-assessment7
creative-commons7
wolfram-language7
jupyter-notebook6
python6
simulation6
mamba5
geant45
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
villano-lab/nrFano_paper2019
Sep 2019 - Dec 2022
Analysis code/Jupyter notebook documentation for the 2019 NR Fano paper
Contributions:1 release, 242 commits, 207 pushes in 3 years 3 months
jupyter-notebook
villano-lab/analytical_mechanics
Sep 2020 - Oct 2025
Tutorials, Activities, and Code for my Analytical Mechanics class at the University of Colorado Denver
Contributions:63 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
ssreflectpythonuniversity-of-coloradocoloradoactivities
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