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Dr. Anton S. Tremsin

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Research areas

Dr. Tremsin has been working on research and development of new technologies in position sensitive photon, electron and neutron counting detectors based on microchannel plates. Dr. Tremsin has performed fundamental research into the development of new event counting detection systems with unique combination of very high spatial and temporal resolution capable of operation at very high counting rates exceeding 500 MHz with no readout noise. These detection systems enable novel non-destructive testing techniques in materials research, astrophysics, synchrotron instrumentation, biological imaging, space and ground-based observations, nuclear energy, studies of cultural heritage objects and many others. The high efficiency neutron detectors with no readout noise and very low background are widely used now at various experimental facilities around the world and several of those systems have been installed at the user facilities at the DOE laboratories (ORNL, LANL) and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK. The new non-destructive testing techniques with neutrons developed by Dr. Tremsin enable high resolution studies through energy-resolved neutron imaging in a wide range of energies, from cold to epithermal neutrons. Mapping of elemental composition, temperature and even gas pressures through neutron resonance absorption, simultaneously with studies of crystallographic properties through Bragg scattering has been enabled by these novel fast neutron counting detectors and data analysis methods, developed recently by Dr. Tremsin.  During his career Dr. Tremsin has also worked on the development of new detection technologies for the future NASA astrophysical missions, with some of these novel devices successfully flown on multiple NASA astrophysical missions. Dr Tremsin was also active in promoting science to the public by lecturing at various events, including annual Cal Day, Acalanes and Campolindo High Schools as well as serving as a Grand Award Judge at Intel International Science Fair.  In addition to his fundamental research activities Dr. Tremsin serves as a reviewer of many scholar journals and serves at many review panels for various government agencies and has been named as a best reviewer in several of them.


Education

B.Sc. (Physics), M.Sc. (Physics), (1983-1989)
Department of Aerophysics and Space Research, 
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia
and
Institute of Appplied Mathematics (1988-1989)
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

D.Phil. 1992
"Computer simulation and software support of experiments with fast crossed molecular beams"
Institute for Mathematical Modelling (1989-1992),
Russian Academy of Sciences,
Miusskaya sq.4, Moscow, 125047,Russia


University of LeicesterPostdoctoral Royal Society Fellow (1994-96),
X-Ray Astronomy Group ,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Leicester,
University Road,
Leicester, LE1 7RH
United Kingdom


Career/Employment

2011 - present Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA Full Researcher Research instrumentation and data analysis in materials science, energy research, geosciences, safety and civil engineering.
Non-destructive testing in materials science, energy research, cultural heritage, nuclear materials, single crystal growth and characterization, and others, based on neutron transmission spectroscopic imaging.
Development of new enabling technologies for astrophysical and synchrotron instrumentation, energy-resolved neutron imaging and studies of fast dynamic processes.
2004 - 2011 Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA Research Associate

New technologies in position sensitive detectors for astrophysical, neutron, synchrotron  and biomedical imaging.

1996 - 2004 Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA Research Assistant

Development of new technologies for high resolution position sensitive detectors for prospective NASA missions, synchrotron instrumentation and biomedical imaging.

1994-1996
X-Ray Astronomy Group ,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Leicester,
University Road,
Leicester, LE1 7RH
United Kingdom
Postdoctoral Royal Society Fellow Development of new technologies for photon and electron counting with high spatial and temporal resolution.
1989-1993
Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences PhD student
Experiment development for the studies of the potential of interatomic and intermolecular interaction in the range of 0.1-10 eV energies. Development of position sensitive detectors and novel readout methods.
1987-1989
Central Aerological Observatory, Moscow, Russia
Internship Development of data analysis tools for the meteorological research.


Honors, Awards, Fellowships, Membership of Professional Societies


Review panels/chairing conferences

Dr. Tremsin has reviewed over 180 papers in refereed journals and was named "one of the most valued reviewers of 2015 by the Editors of Nuclear Inst. And Methods in Physics Research, A", and recognized for his reviews by the Optical Society of America. He has also been on the review panels for NASA, DOE, Japanese Accelerator Research Center. Dr. Tremsin has been invited to chair sessions at many international conferences and workshops.


Teaching and short course instruction


Publications (see attached list of publications)

Dr. Tremsin is the author/co-author on more than 200 publications in scholar journals.  He has also given more than 100 talks at international conferences (many of them invited) and seminars in various universities and research institutions in the USA, Europe and Japan (see the attached list of talks and seminars).


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