Santiago Bernal Assistant Research Scientist Mailing Address: Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics Energy Research Facility, Room 1202D University of Maryland College Park, Maryland 20742-3511 Phone: (301) 405-7292 Email: sabern at umd.edu FAX: (301) 314-9437

Santiago Bernal received a B.S. in physics from the National University of Colombia in 1981; a M.S. in physics from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1983; and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maryland in 1999. In 2000 Dr. Bernal joined IREAP as a Research Associate and is now an Assistant Research Scientist. For the past five years he has been the leading experimentalist on the University of Maryland Electron Ring.

His research interests are beam and accelerator physics, all aspects of experimental physics of intense charged particles beams (instrumentation, diagnostics, computer simulations). He is also interested in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics in general and in educational aspects of physics.

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University of Maryland Electron Ring