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About Andrew Kortyna

Andrew Kortyna is a Ph.D. physicist currently based in Boulder, Colorado, where he serves as a research associate at the JILA (Joint Institute of Laboratory Astrophysics). Andrew Kortyna performs high-precision and high-sensitivity structure measurements of free radicals and transient molecules. He also supervises student and post-doctoral research assistants.

Over the course of his career, he has built and applied continuous wave and pulsed lasers and has designed, built, and operated high-precision frequency-metrology instrumentation and sensors. He is proficient with linear and non-linear spectroscopic and photonics and has experience with radio-frequency and microwave techniques.

Prior to taking on his current role, Andrew Kortyna was a professor at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, where he developed and taught lecture and laboratory classes for undergraduate physics students. During his time at the college, he wrote research proposals which generated funding of more than $500,000.

He also served as a visiting scholar at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He earned a B.S. in physics from Juniata College and a Ph.D. in physics from Wesleyan University.

Monday, August 17, 2020

Published: Researchers Posit Two Liquid Forms of Supercooled Water