Brief CV
Below is a brief version of my curriculum vitae.
Dr. Christian Drischler
Assistant Professor
FRIB-TA Bridge Faculty
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Clippinger Laboratories 265
139 University Terrace
1 Ohio University Drive
Athens, OH 45701-2979
Academic positions
- Assistant Professor and FRIB Theory Alliance Bridge Faculty, Ohio University, 2022-today
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University (MSU), 2022-today
- FRIB Theory Fellow (Visiting Assistant Professor), Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University, 2020-2022
- Feodor-Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (“Humboldt Fellow”), University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2019-2020
- Postdoctoral researcher, University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2017-2019
Education
- Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D. equivalent, advisor: Achim Schwenk), Physics, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, 2017
- M.Sc., Physics, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, 2014
- B.Sc., Physics, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, 2012
Awards and honors
- National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, 2024-today
- Inaugural FRIB Early Achievement Award (theory), Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University, 2021
- FRIB Theory Alliance Fellowship, 2020-2022
- Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2019-2020
- Research Award of the Gerhard Herzberg Foundation at Technical University Darmstadt, 2018
- Fellowship of the DLR_Graduate_Program, 2015-2017
- State of Hesse Research Award and Award of the German Statutory Accident Insurance at “Youth Researches” (Jugend forscht) for the project I beg your pardon? Do musicians really hear worse?, 2008
Teaching
- PHYS 2002: Introduction to Physics (with lab)
- Spring 2026, Fall 2026
- PHYS 4071/5071: Computer Simulation Methods in Physics
- Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025
- PHYS 6900: Computational Physics Summer Tutorials
- Summer 2023, Summer 2024, Summer 2025
- PHYS 8501: Research Seminar in Nuclear and Particle Physics and Journal Club
- Spring 2023, Spring 2025
PHYS 2002
This is the second course in physics and is open to students from all areas. A background in algebra, trigonometry, and geometry is required; calculus is not necessary. Topics include electricity, magnetism, waves, sound, light, relativity, quantum physics, atomic physics, and nuclear physics. The course carries 4 semester credit hours and includes 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of laboratory each week.
PHYS 4071/5071
The course PHYS 4071/5071 provides a comprehensive introduction to numerical methods and computational tools for solving physics problems using the Python programming language. Students are introduced to numerical methods and to the computational approach to scientific problems. Topics covered include:
- numerical differentiation and integration methods,
- numerical error analysis,
- numerical linear algebra,
- data fitting,
- Monte Carlo strategies, and
- parallel computing.
Service
- Elected member of the Executive Board of the FRIB Theory Alliance, 2024-2027
- Co-host of Public Telescope Nights at the Ohio University Observatory, 2022-today
- Faculty Advisor of the Student Organization “Physics and Astronomy Graduate Students” (PandA GradS) at Ohio University, 2022-today
- Various committee work at Ohio University, 2022-today
- Referee for scientific journals, including Phys. Rev. C, Phys. Rev. Lett., and Phys. Lett. B, 2018-today
- (and more)
Workshops and conferences
- Convener of the session “Nuclear Structure for Neutrinos and Astrophysics: Nuclear matrix elements for neutrino and dark matter interactions; Reaction rates; Equation of State” at the “15th Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics” (CIPANP 2025) at the University of Wisconsin (co-conveners: Ingo Tews, Anna McCoy), June 9-13, 2025
- Organizer of the 2024 MITP program Uncertainty Quantification in Nuclear Physics at Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics (MITP), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (co-organizers: Weiguang Jiang, Takayuki Miyagi, and Joanna Sobczyk), June 24-28, 2024
Funding
- Department of Energy’s STREAMLINE2 Collaboration: Machine Learning for Nuclear Many-Body Systems (DE-SC0026198), 2025-2027
- National Science Foundation’s CAREER: Nuclear Matter from Chiral Effective Field Theory in the FRIB & Multimessenger Era (2339043), 2024-2029
- Department of Energy’s STREAMLINE Collaboration: Machine Learning for Nuclear Many-Body Systems (DE-SC0024233), 2023-2025
- Ohio University startup funding, 2022-2026
Publications
The complete list can be found on inspirehep.net.
Talks
The complete list is available on the Talks page.
Graduated students
- Joshua Maldonado (summer 2023 through summer 2024), STREAMLINE collaboration, Master’s thesis: A Greedy Algorithm for Nuclear Two-Body Scattering (2024).
- Grace Eichler (summer 2024 through spring 2025), undergraduate HTC thesis: Sensitivity of the neutron star structure on the low-density equation of state parameters.