Alice Louise Bean

Alice Bean
  • University Distinguished Professor

Contact Info

Office Phone:
785-864-4742
Department Phone:
785-864-4626
Fax:
785-864-5262
Malott Hall, room #6084

Biography —

Dr. Bean joined KU’s Department of Physics & Astronomy in 1993. Her main research field is experimental particle physics with a major focus on building and calibrating silicon tracking detectors. 

Dr. Bean works on analysis of data, such as looking for supersymmetric particle decays where the difference in different candidate masses are small (compressed scenarios). Through a series of National Science Foundation (NSF) grants, she has worked with the CMS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider. 

As a joint project with the KU’s Department of Art and Design and the KU Natural History Museum, Dr. Bean created Quarked!, a multimedia science education project to teach children and others about particle physics in a fun, engaging way. 

She is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and a Jefferson Science Fellow with the U.S. Department of State and National Academy of Sciences.

Learn more about Alice Bean on the Department of Physics & Astronomy website.

Education —

Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
M.S. in Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
B.A. in Physics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA
B.S. in Information Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA