Dr. Shri Kanekal

EDUCATION

B.E., Electrical Engineering, Bangalore University, India, 1980

Ph.D., Physics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, September, 1988 
Thesis: Measurement of the hadronic branching fractions of the tau lepton.

POSITIONS

Aug 2002--Present 
Associate Research Professor                     
Catholic University of America, Washington D. C. 

Aug 2000--Aug 2002
Research Associate
LASP, University of Colorado, Boulder, 

May 2001--Aug 2001
Visiting Scientist
Max Planck Institute, Garching, 

March 1992--Aug 2000
Principal Scientist, Raytheon ITSS

Sept 1988--March 1992
Post-doctoral Fellow
Nevis Laboratories, Department of Physics, 
Columbia University, NY, 

Sept 1988--Jan 1992
Visiting Fellow, 
Laboratory for Nuclear Studies, Cornell University, NY,

My research areas include electron energization processes, energetic particle 
boundaries in the magnetosphere, solar energetic particles, Jovian electrons 
and space weather. I have also worked on calibration of particle detectors. I 
have been a science team member on SAMPEX and Polar spacecraft since launch. I 
conducted the GSFC Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics seminar series from 
1996 to 1998.

While in High energy physics, I studied the leptonic decay modes of the top 
quark at Fermilab and hadronic and leptonic decay modes of the Upsilon 
resonances at Cornell.