B.S., Principia College Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Christopher "Topher" Cawlfield joined the Principia College faculty in 2006. His doctoral research was in the field of experimental particle physics, during which he was a collaborator on both the E687 and FOCUS experiments at Fermilab. Following that, Dr. Cawlfield spent four years as a post-doctoral research associate on the CLEO experiment at Cornell University's Synchrotron accelerator. There, he was primarily responsible for maintaining the trigger electronics, and also served the collaboration as "Run Manager" for a year. As of Jan 24, 2007, he is a joint author on 126 published papers in particle physics. During his graduate studies, he was given the Giulio Ascoli Award for demonstrating excellence and originality in the study of high energy physics. And as a student at Principia, he was awarded the James Watt Physical Science award and the Mathematics award.
