Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli
Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, Ph.D., (they/them) has served as an assistant professor of physics in the department of physics and astronomy at Vanderbilt University since the fall of 2022. They have worked primarily in the field of high energy nuclear physics.
Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, Ph.D., (they/them) has served as an assistant professor of physics in the department of physics and astronomy at Vanderbilt University since the fall of 2022. They have worked primarily in the field of high energy nuclear physics since they earned their masters at Stony Brook University back in 2011. After doing their Ph.D. work at Rutgers University (2013-2017) with measurements of QCD jets in varying collision systems at the CMS experiment at CERN, they moved their research back to RHIC science during postdoc positions at Wayne State University (2017-2022) and Yale/BNL (2020-2022) with the STAR collaboration. At Vanderbilt University, their main focus is on the new sPHENIX experiment at RHIC and the CMS experiment at LHC along with EIC physics heading into the future. They were recently awarded the DOE Early Career award for 2023 for their efforts focused on measurements of the space-time evolution of quarks and gluons at RHIC. They are also an NSF-funded co-PI of the JETSCAPE collaboration, which includes both theorists and experimentalists focused on creating advanced analysis and statistical toolkits to extract fundamental properties of the QGP.