Steve Lidia
Radiation Effects Facility Manager
East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Lidia is a physicist and engineering leader with 12+ years directing beam diagnostics, machine protection, and radiation effects operations at FRIB, where he manages teams that deliver hundreds of sensors and feedback systems for a 400 kW-class heavy-ion SRF accelerator. He combines deep hands-on expertise in high-brightness, space-charge-dominated beam dynamics with practical skills in experimental diagnostics, systems integration, and computational modeling to maximize facility uptime and scientific output. A former staff scientist at LBNL and adjunct professor at Michigan State, he bridges academic research and large-scale facility engineering to shepherd complex projects from concept to operation. He has built and led interdisciplinary teams of physicists, engineers, technicians, and students, and has formal responsibility as a project control account manager and machine protection lead. Based in East Lansing, he brings a rare mix of theoretical fluency and operational rigor, plus niche experience developing beam instrumentation for intense ion beams. Outside the lab he’s an ACA-certified open-water instructor and occasional hacker, reflecting a practical, hands-on approach to teaching and problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Physics, Ph.D., Physics at University of California, DavisB.S., Engineering Physics, B.S., Engineering Physics at University of California, Berkeley
English
Github Skills (11)
twitter-api6
python5
twitter5
gift5
api3
ruby3
cli3
curl3
oauth2
scripting2
twurl1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
goatface/getpaper
Feb 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 96 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
goatface/ffpeaks
May 2014 - Jan 2022
Contributions:7 commits, 10 pushes in 7 years 9 months
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