Physics Careers & Navigating Your Path

Event Date:
2025-11-27T14:00:00
2025-11-27T15:30:00
Event Location:
HENN 318
Speaker:
PHAS Alumni, Alan Poon: Program Head (Fundamental symmetries & Neutrinos) & Senior Physicist at the Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; APS Committee on Careers and Professional Development and 2025-26 Career Mentoring Fellow
Related Upcoming Events:
Other Talks
Intended Audience:
Everyone
Local Contact:

Kirsty Dickson (communications@phas.ubc.ca)

All students, faculty and post-docs are welcome to this event! 

Event Information:

Meet Dr. Alan Poon:

  • PHAS Alumni (did his PhD under supervisor Dr. Chris Waltham)
  • Currently Program Head and Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
  • APS Committee on Careers and Professional Development and 2025-26 Career Mentoring Fellow.
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society
  • Fellow of the American Association for the advancement of Science (AAAS)

This talk is for all students (undergrad and grad), postdocs, and interested faculty. Alan's wish is to share information on job opportunities for students with undergraduate and higher degrees.

Bio:

Alan Poon received his BSc and PhD degrees from the University of British Columbia. He joined Berkeley Lab in1998, and is currently the Program Head of the Neutrinos Program and the Deputy Director of the Lab’s Nuclear Science Division. After contributing to the award-winning Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) and KamLAND experiments that demonstrated neutrino oscillations in the solar and reactor neutrinos, he and his colleagues of the Neutrino Astrophysics Group have been exploring the mass properties of neutrinos in the MAJORANA, LEGEND, and KATRIN experiments, as well as implementing radiation detection technologies in other fields. He is passionate about science outreach and education, and organizes the annual Nuclear Science Day for Scouts event at Berkeley Lab.

Links:

Add to Calendar 2025-11-27T14:00:00 2025-11-27T15:30:00 Physics Careers & Navigating Your Path Event Information: Meet Dr. Alan Poon: PHAS Alumni (did his PhD under supervisor Dr. Chris Waltham) Currently Program Head and Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) APS Committee on Careers and Professional Development and 2025-26 Career Mentoring Fellow. Fellow of the American Physical Society Fellow of the American Association for the advancement of Science (AAAS) This talk is for all students (undergrad and grad), postdocs, and interested faculty. Alan's wish is to share information on job opportunities for students with undergraduate and higher degrees. Bio: Alan Poon received his BSc and PhD degrees from the University of British Columbia. He joined Berkeley Lab in1998, and is currently the Program Head of the Neutrinos Program and the Deputy Director of the Lab’s Nuclear Science Division. After contributing to the award-winning Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) and KamLAND experiments that demonstrated neutrino oscillations in the solar and reactor neutrinos, he and his colleagues of the Neutrino Astrophysics Group have been exploring the mass properties of neutrinos in the MAJORANA, LEGEND, and KATRIN experiments, as well as implementing radiation detection technologies in other fields. He is passionate about science outreach and education, and organizes the annual Nuclear Science Day for Scouts event at Berkeley Lab. Links: See Alan's Bio on UBC Magazine: Alan Poon, BSc'91, PhD'98 | UBC Magazine See Alan's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-poon-4225503b/ Explore the LBNL: Home – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Some of his work is caught on one of our PHAS history posters! See here: vandegraaff_final_flattened_reduced.pdf Event Location: HENN 318