Jason Detwiler

Jason Detwiler is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Washington, part of the College of Arts & Sciences. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University (2005) and a B.A. from Occidental College (1999). His research focuses on neutrino properties, beyond the Standard Model physics, and neutrinoless double-beta decay, leading experiments like the Majorana Demonstrator, LEGEND, COHERENT, and KamLAND-Zen. He has contributed to breakthroughs in neutrino oscillation studies and is an APS Fellow (2020).

Education:

• Ph.D., Physics, Stanford University, 2005
• B.A., Physics, Occidental College, 1999

Research Interests:

• Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay
• Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering
• Dark Matter Detection
• Grand Unification Theories

Publications Highlight Trends in neutrino physics, detector development, and rare-event searches. Awards include the 2020 APS Fellowship and contributions to the 2016 Breakthrough Prize-winning KamLAND/SNO collaborations.

Teaching includes courses on mechanics, quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, and optics. He is affiliated with the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (U. Tokyo).