Rasha Abbasi
Meet this month’s faculty spotlight: Dr. Rasha Abbasi! Dr. Abbasi joined Loyola in 2019 as an Assistant Professor within the Department of Physics. She earned a B.A. in Physics from Jordan University and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Astroparticle Physics from the University of Utah. Although she was interested in the sciences from an early age, it was her education in the U.S. that instilled a passion for physics.
Dr. Abbasi is currently working on two ongoing projects. Her primary research, funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, uses telescope array technology to observe gamma rays in the atmosphere. In doing so, her team has had several major breakthroughs that change the way we understand gamma ray production, including information about the electrical fields inside thunderstorms. For her second project, Dr. Abbasi is part of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located in the South Pole. Here, she works with Loyola students and collaborators across the globe to search for nearly massless subatomic particles called neutrinos. This then helps scientists observe the cosmos from deep within the South Pole ice.
We are so proud of the incredible work Dr. Abbasi is doing. Thank you for helping us better understand our world!
Meet this month’s faculty spotlight: Dr. Rasha Abbasi! Dr. Abbasi joined Loyola in 2019 as an Assistant Professor within the Department of Physics. She earned a B.A. in Physics from Jordan University and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Astroparticle Physics from the University of Utah. Although she was interested in the sciences from an early age, it was her education in the U.S. that instilled a passion for physics.
Dr. Abbasi is currently working on two ongoing projects. Her primary research, funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, uses telescope array technology to observe gamma rays in the atmosphere. In doing so, her team has had several major breakthroughs that change the way we understand gamma ray production, including information about the electrical fields inside thunderstorms. For her second project, Dr. Abbasi is part of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located in the South Pole. Here, she works with Loyola students and collaborators across the globe to search for nearly massless subatomic particles called neutrinos. This then helps scientists observe the cosmos from deep within the South Pole ice.
We are so proud of the incredible work Dr. Abbasi is doing. Thank you for helping us better understand our world!