Dr. Alec Habig is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at University of Minnesota Duluth, teaching both undergraduate and graduate students. He studies cosmic rays and neutrinos in the fun hybrid field of Particle Astrophysics, with detectors in both deep underground labs and at Fermilab.
Dr. Habig’s research with includes MINOS, MINOS+, NOvA, HALO, and DUNE neutrino experiments. He has also worked on the Super-Kamiokande (still running) and MACRO (turned off in December 2000) experiments.
Dr. Habig is also participating in SNEWS (Supernova Early Warning System) and its upgrade SNEWS2.0, which is a coincidence monitor of many neutrino experiments to provide early warning of a supernova in our galaxy.
Dr. Habig is University of Minnesota Duluth’s representative to the Minnesota Space Grant Consortium.
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