Rate My Professor Andrew Jackura

Andrew Jackura is an Assistant Professor of Physics in the Nuclear Theory group at William & Mary. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from Indiana University in 2019 and his M.S. in Physics from Indiana University in 2017. Prior to joining William & Mary in August 2023, he held postdoctoral positions at Old Dominion University and Jefferson Lab from 2019 to early 2023 and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley from February to August 2023. In 2021, he was awarded the JSA Postdoctoral Prize Fellowship at Jefferson Lab for his work on the three-particle problem in nuclear interactions.

Jackura's research centers on nuclear and particle theory, Quantum Chromodynamics, reaction theory and phenomenology, hadron spectroscopy, and lattice field theory. He investigates few-body nuclear and particle reactions using theoretical and numerical tools to connect low-energy processes to QCD, with emphasis on three-body dynamics and electroweak interactions of hadrons. His efforts align closely with the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, where he collaborates with experimentalists and theorists. He is a member of the U.S. Department of Energy-funded Exotic Hadrons Topical Collaboration (ExoHad), exploring exotic hadron physics from lattice QCD predictions to phenomenological models; the Hadron Spectrum (HadSpec) collaboration, employing supercomputers for first-principles hadron spectroscopy; and an affiliate of the Joint Physics Analysis Center (JPAC). Key publications include "Determination of the pole position of the lightest hybrid meson candidate" (Physical Review Letters 122, 042002, 2019), "Studying the η′(2S) resonance in photoproduction off protons" (Physical Review D 94, 034002, 2016), "Issues and opportunities in exotic hadrons" (Chinese Physics C 40, 042001, 2016), "Equivalence of three-particle scattering formalisms" (Physical Review D 100, 034508, 2019), "Phenomenology of relativistic reaction amplitudes within the isobar approximation" (European Physical Journal C 79, 2019), and "Solving relativistic three-body integral equations in the presence of bound states" (Physical Review D 104, 014507, 2021). At William & Mary, he serves on the Residency Status Appeals Board and Undergraduate Research Committee.