Rate My Professor Patrick Huber

Patrick Huber is Professor of Physics and Director of the Center for Neutrino Physics at Virginia Tech, holding the William E. Hassinger, Jr. Senior Faculty Fellow position. He received his Diplom in general physics in 2000 and Dr. rer. nat. in theoretical particle physics in 2003 from the Technical University Munich. His postdoctoral research included a fellowship at the Technical University Munich from 2003 to 2004, a research associate position in phenomenology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2004 to 2007, and a theory fellowship at CERN from 2007 to 2008. Since joining Virginia Tech in 2008 as Assistant Professor, he progressed to Associate Professor in 2012, briefly served as Department Chair from 2015 to 2016, and has been full Professor since 2015. Additionally, he has been a Fermilab Distinguished Scholar since 2016.

Huber's research focuses on neutrino physics, encompassing neutrino oscillations, CP violation in neutrinos, reactor antineutrino spectra, sterile neutrinos, long-baseline experiments, and applications to nuclear security. He contributed significantly to the phenomenology of long-baseline neutrino oscillations and developed the GLoBES software package, now in version 3.0, for simulating neutrino oscillation experiments. Key publications include "On the determination of reactor antineutrino spectra from nuclear reactors," Physical Review C 84, 024617 (2011); "Antineutrino monitoring for the Iranian heavy water reactor," Physical Review Letters 113, 042503 (2014); "Hints for leptonic CP violation or New Physics?", Physical Review Letters 117, 031801 (2016); "Light sterile neutrinos: a white paper," arXiv:1204.5379 (2012); and "New features in the simulation of neutrino oscillation experiments with GLoBES 3.0," Computer Physics Communications 177, 432 (2007). His seminal work has helped shape the U.S. and global experimental neutrino oscillation programs. Awards include the Otto-Hahn Medal of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (2003), U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Research Award (2010), Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2016), American Physical Society Fellowship (2019), and William E. Hassinger Jr. Senior Faculty Fellowship (2023). He served on the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel.