Residence San Mateo, California | Citizenship American Spouse Thomas G. Rizzo | |
Thesis Superstring-inspired E6 phenomenology | ||
JoAnne L. Hewett (born 1960) is a theoretical particle physicist on the faculty of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, where she is a professor in the Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, and Director of the Elementary Particle Physics Division. Her research interests include physics beyond the Standard Model, string theory, and hidden dimensions. She is a fellow of the American Physical Society and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
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Early life and education
JoAnne Lea Hewett, daughter of Robert and Jean Hewett, was born in 1960. Hewett attended Pleasant Valley High School in Bettendorf, Iowa. She completed her undergraduate degree in physics and mathematics at Iowa State University in 1982, and her doctorate there in 1988.
Career
Hewett began her career as a postdoctoral associate from 1988–1991 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and in 1991–1993 she worked as a physicist at Argonne National Laboratory. In 1994 she joined the faculty at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, where she is a professor in the SLAC Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics and Director of the Elementary Particle Physics Division.
Hewett has served on Program Advisory Committees of SLAC, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and the Cornell Electron Storage Ring. From 2004-2006 and again in 2016 she served on the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel; in 2006 and 2014, she served on the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel.
Research
Her research interests include models of physics beyond the Standard Model, emphasizing collider signatures and the interface with astroparticle physics. Hewett has worked on the "phenomenology of extra spatial dimensions, extended Higgs sectors, supersymmetry, new physics signatures in heavy flavor physics, dark matter, and the complementarity of experimental probes of dark matter". She has collaborated on the BaBar experiment, the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, and the International Linear Collider.
Honors
Upon her election in 2007 as a fellow of the American Physical Society, Hewett was cited "For her contributions to our understanding of constraints on and searches for physics beyond the Standard Model, and service to the particle physics community leading studies of future experiments." She was elected in 2009 as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.