Heidi Schellman

Heidi Schellman is Professor and former Dept. Head of Physics at Oregon State University.  Her research interests are the interface between strong and weak interaction physics and large-scale computing for high energy physics experiments.   Her current activities are in neutrino physics where she led the Offline Computing Consortium for the DUNE collaboration from 2018-2024.  Part of that activity has been the design of data handling techniques to allow to DUNE to transfer up to 30 PetaBytes of data/year from Sanford Lab to global computing sites for rapid processing.  She is now developing systems for open access to early astrophysical data from the DUNE detectors at Sanford Lab.

Prior to moving to Oregon State, she served as Department Head and Associate Dean for Research at Northwestern University. She has served on advisory panels for Fermilab in Illinois, Jefferson Laboratory in Virginia and CERN in Switzerland as well the Dept. of Energy, SnoLaband Brookhaven National Laboratory. She led the Particle Physics Commission of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics from 2017-2021 and will become Chair of the American Physical Society Division of Particles and Fields in 2025.

She is a Sloan Foundation Fellow and Fellow of the American Physical Society and was awarded  the American Physical Society Division of Particles and Field Mentoring Award in 2015 for her work supporting young scientists.