Resume: Marie Boër
Curriculum Vitae: Marie BOËR (updated May, 2025)
Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech Physics Dept., Experimental Nuclear Physics
Email: mboer@vt.edu; Office phone: +1 540 231 7410, Webpage: https://boer.phys.vt.edu
Mail: Virginia Tech Physics Dept, Robeson Hall, 850 W Campus Dr, Blacksburg, VA 24061
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ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech, VA / Bridge position with Jefferson Lab (8/2020-present)
Research Assistant Professor (term), Paris-Sud University and IPN Orsay, France (10/2014 – 8/2015)
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POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS
Postdoc, University of New Hampshire, NH (9/2019 – 8/2020)
Postdoc, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (11/2018 -9/2019)
Postdoc, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC (11/2017 –10/2018)
Postdoc, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM (2/2016 –11/2017)
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EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
Qualification [to university professorship] (required by French universities) (2015)
PhD, Nuclear Physics, Title: Generalized Parton Distributions with spacelike and timelike Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering. Original title in French: Étude des Distributions de Parton Généralisées avec la diffusion Compton profondément virtuelle "genre espace" et "genre temps". Supervisors: Dr. Michel Guidal and Dr. Etienne Burtin. Paris-Sud University, Orsay, France and CEA Saclay (2014)
Master, Physics, "Nuclei, Particles, Astroparticles, Cosmology", UPMC, Paris, France (2011)
Bachelor, Physics, speciality "Fundamental Physics" (credit-equivalence) UPMC, Paris, France (2009)
Bachelor, Chemistry, speciality "Inorganic Chemistry", UPMC, Paris, France (2008)
Baccalauréat, Scientific, Lycée Les Feuillants, Poitiers, France (2005)
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TEACHING
Teaching at Virginia Tech University (2021-current)
- Nuclear Physics, senior and graduate elective (fall 2023, 2024)
- Modern experimental physics, coordinating senior projects (spring 2021-2023)
- Introduction to particle physics (module), first-year (fall 2021-2024)
Teaching at Paris-Sud University, Orsay, France (2011–2015)
- Introduction to quantum mechanics, lectures, tutorials and labs (2012-2015)
- Kinetic theory of gas, lectures and tutotials (2013-2015)
- Classical and solid mechanics, tutorials and labs (2011-2015)
- Professional project tutorials (2011)
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GRANTS (selected)
- DOE early career on “Multichannel approach to Generalized Parton Distributions” (fall 2024 – 2029)
- DOE “Exclusives with AI/ML (EXCLAIM)”, in collaboration with theorists (fall 2023 – 2025)
- 4VA “From inclusive to exclusive structure of the nucleon” (summer 2023 and AY23-24)
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RESEARCH SUPERVISION
Postdocs (2): Debaditya Biswas (since May 2022) and Kemal Tezgin (since June 2024)
Graduate Students (2): Gyang Chung (since Aug. 2022) and Mahmoud Gomina (since Aug. 2022)
Undergraduate students (2): Keagan Bell (since Sept. 2023), Arna Ma (since Jan. 2024)
Former students (31): Ryan McLaughlin, Nathaniel Jun , Mary Conner, Yash Agarwal, Lucas Hughes, Mohammad Reza Jiang Najar, Keirsten Kekic, Seth Stuller, Bobby Duan, Huang Tzu Yun, Erik Wrightson, Brannon Semp, Tristan Anderson, Jocelyn Robbins:, Melinda Yuan, Camille Zindy, Kevin Sanford, Tyler Schroeder, Nicholas Roush, Barbara Sanchez, Alexander Hamilton, Cesar Ibarra, Nathan Stroh, Ben Poudlich, Ge Liu, Brendan Lorn, Mitchell Cassell, Mai Huynh, Zeyu Gao, Antoine Luboz, Renaud Lustrat.
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MAIN RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Main topic: Experimental Hadronic Physics, development of Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs) physics programs for Jefferson Lab via Hard Exclusive Compton-like and Vector mesons reactions in Halls A/C, Compton Form Factors (CFFs) / GPDs extraction; Software, phenomenology, Monte-Carlo.
- Development of new experiments at JLab for Timelike Compton Scat. and Double Deeply Virtual Compton Scat. in Hall A and C – as a spokesperson (2015 – present): event generator, physics cases, impact studies, GEANT4 simulations, analysis, detectors R&D (...). Impact studies for other reactions.
- Development of a muon detector for JLab Hall A and C, R&D for a prototype (2022-present)
- Event generators “DEEPGEN” (JLab) and DEEPSim (EIC) for (hard) exclusive reactions.
- Phenomenology, fits of CFFs and extraction methods for GPDs, calculations of cross sections, software for hard exclusive reactions and observable studies, use of AI/ML methods (2014-present)
- Analysis for JLab Hall A/C/D (2018-present): DIS, Elastic FFs, exclusive ρ°γ, TCS, J/ψ, VCS (...)
- Analysis for COMPASS (2010-2014): DIS, DVCS, exclusive π°, ρ°, luminosity, calibrations (...)
- Analysis for PHENIX (2016-2017): J/ψ, Υ, Drell-Yan (…).
- Hardware (past): Design and tests fo 3D-printed target ladder, material studies (2019-2020 at UNH)
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COLLABORATIONS (selected)
Current:
- JLab Hall A, SoLID (since 2015) and SBS (since 2023)
- JLab Hall C, NPS and CPS collaborations (since 2015)
- Jlab Hall D, GlueX collaboration (2018 and since fall 2023)
- EIC, ePIC collaboration, EICUG
- EXCLAIM collaboration (Machine learning/AI project with theorists and CS)
- Center for Nuclear Femtography (since 2020)
- Member of APS (DNP/GHP) (2020-present) and GDR Nucléon (French GHP) (2011-present)
- Chesapeake Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers (CSAAPT) (since 2024)
Past:
- EIC, ECCE (2021) and PID consortium eRD-14 (2018)
- BNL, PHENIX collaboration (2016 – 2017)
- CERN, COMPASS NA58 collaboration (2010 – 2014)
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SERVICE (selected)
Virginia Tech Physics Department:
- Qualifying exam committee (since fall 2023)
- Academic mentoring, PhD committees (since 2021)
- Organization of the seminars for the Center for Neutrino Physics (2020-2022)
- Graduate Committee (AY2021-2022)
- Diversity committee and REU committee (AY2020-2021)
Physics Community
- Elected member of the Hall C collaboration (JLab) stearing committee (since Aug. 2022)
- EIC User Group Elections and Nomination committee (since fall 2023)
- EXCLAIM collaboration ethics & bylaws committee chair (since fall 2023)
- Center for Nuclear Femtography seminars board (since fall 2022)
- Spokesperson of several experiments at JLab (since 2015)
Workshops Organization
- Chair, workshop “Towards improved hadron femtography with hard exclusive reactions II”, JLab ECT* Trento, Italy (2024)
- Co-organizer of the bi-annual joint Cheasapeake and NC AAPT meeting, JLab, Newport News (2024)
- Chair, workshop “Towards improved hadron femtography with hard exclusive reactions II”, JLab Newport News, VA, USA (2023)
- Chair, workshop “Nucleon and nuclei structure from inclusive measurements”, JLab Newport News, VA, USA (2023)
- Co-chair, workshop CNF “Generalized Parton Distributions and Global analysis” (2023)
- Co-organizer of the Hall C bi-annual meetings (winter+summer 2023, 2024, 2025)
- round table at JLab “Graduate experiences across the world” (2023).
- Chair and local organizer, workshop “Towards improved hadron femtography with hard exclusive reactions (1st edition)”, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA (2022)
- Chair, workshop "Next generation GPD studies with exclusive meson production at EIC", Center for Frontiers in Nuclear Science, Stony Brook, NY, USA (2018)
- Chair, workshop "Frontiers and Careers in Nuclear and Particle Physics", U. New Hampshire (2016)
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NON ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES (selected)
- High level athlete in Judo, on French sport minister official list, international level, first league as individual and in team with SGS-club, member of 3 national training centers (2003-2010)
- First aid volunteer, Civil Protection Departemental Association (31), CFAPSE certified (2002-2003)
- Other jobs: math tutoring, judo referee in local events, international events organization.