Rate My Professor Andrew Furmanski

Andrew Furmanski is an Associate Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. He received his B.A. and M.Sci. degrees from the University of Cambridge in 2011 and his Ph.D. from the University of Warwick in 2015. Following his doctoral studies, he served as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Manchester, primarily based at Fermilab near Chicago. In 2019, he joined the University of Minnesota as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2025 upon receiving tenure.

Furmanski's research specializes in experimental particle physics, focusing on the development and operation of large liquid argon time projection chambers for neutrino experiments. Since 2015, he has contributed to the MicroBooNE collaboration by participating in the installation and commissioning of the 170-ton liquid argon detector at Fermilab and managing its operations during the first year of data collection. His group advanced neutrino interaction models, detector calibrations, and simulations, playing a key role in analyses that cast doubt on the sterile neutrino hypothesis proposed over two decades ago. Furmanski is also involved in the Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) and the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), which aim to elucidate neutrino properties and their significance in the early universe. Select publications include "First measurement of differential cross sections for muon neutrino charged current interactions on argon with a two-proton final state using the MicroBooNE detector" (Physics Letters B, 2026), "Data-driven model validation for neutrino-nucleus cross section measurements" (Physical Review D, 2025), "Demonstration of new MeV-scale capabilities in large neutrino LArTPCs using ambient radiogenic and cosmogenic activity in MicroBooNE" (Physical Review D, 2025), and "First Double-Differential Cross Section Measurement of Neutral-Current π⁰ Production in Neutrino-Argon Scattering in the MicroBooNE Detector" (Physical Review Letters, 2025). He has presented research in colloquia at the University of Minnesota and seminars at institutions such as Wichita State University.