Rate My Professor Stephanie Majewski

Stephanie Majewski is a Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Oregon, where she has been a faculty member since 2012. She progressed from Assistant Professor (2012–2017) to Associate Professor (2017–2023) and was promoted to full Professor in 2023. In addition to her professorial role, she serves as Director of Graduate Studies for Physics and Deputy Director of the Institute for Fundamental Science. Majewski's academic journey began with a B.S. in Physics with High Distinction from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002. She then pursued graduate studies at Stanford University, earning a Ph.D. in Applied Physics in 2007 while supported by a National Physical Science Consortium Graduate Fellowship from 2002 to 2007. Following her doctorate, she held a Postdoctoral Research Associate position at Brookhaven National Laboratory from 2007 to 2012.

Majewski specializes in experimental particle physics, with research interests in high-energy physics, the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, supersymmetry, and physics beyond the Standard Model. Her work focuses on searching for the supersymmetric partner to the top quark (stop) and dark matter candidates through analyses of proton-proton collisions. She has contributed significantly to ATLAS detector upgrades, including the Liquid Argon Calorimeter Phase-I upgrade, monitoring and data quality assessment, and the development of trigger electronics for the high-luminosity LHC via the Trigger Global Event Processor. Majewski was part of the University of Oregon team involved in the Higgs boson discovery quest and continues to advance supersymmetry searches. Her contributions earned her the U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Award from 2014 to 2019. Key publications include: "Search for a Supersymmetric Partner to the Top Quark in Final States with Jets and Missing Transverse Momentum at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS Detector" (Physical Review Letters 109, 211802, 2012); "Search for a scalar partner of the top quark in the jets plus missing transverse momentum final state at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector" (Journal of High Energy Physics 12, 085, 2017); "ATLAS Run 1 searches for direct pair production of third-generation squarks at the Large Hadron Collider" (European Physical Journal C 75, 510, 2015); and "Magnifying the ATLAS stealth stop splinter: impact of spin correlations and finite widths" (Journal of High Energy Physics 07, 142, 2018). She teaches courses such as Physics 290, 412, 413, and 662, fostering inclusive, collaborative learning environments.