Elena Long
Assistant Professor at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Durham, New Hampshire, United States
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Top SchoolElena Long is an Assistant Professor and experimental nuclear physicist with 11 years of experience designing analysis software and building precision polarized-target instrumentation. She combines hands-on detector work—plastic scintillators, gas Cerenkov, wire chambers—and cryogenic/NMR systems with C++, FORTRAN, ROOT, and Python expertise across Linux, macOS, and Windows to extract weak signals from noisy backgrounds. At UNH she leads development of a spin-polarized target lab aiming for near-100% proton polarization and elevated tensor polarization, and has served as spokesperson/co-spokesperson for multiple Jefferson Lab experiments. Her background spans experiment operations, run coordination, and mentoring graduate and undergraduate students, plus practical contributions like automating run metadata extraction and distributed analysis workflows. Notably, she has moved between hands-on hardware installation (7T magnet, 1K helium fridge) and software orchestration, bridging lab-scale engineering with data-driven physics analysis.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Physics, 3.653/4.0, B.S., Physics, 3.653/4.0 at Juniata CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, 3.492/4.0, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, 3.492/4.0 at Kent State University
EnglishGithub contributions (5)
ellie-long/b1_rates
Feb 2015 - Jul 2023
Contributions:42 pushes in 8 years 6 months
ellie-long/qe_batch
Oct 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:17 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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