Gabriela Popa

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Education

• Ph.D. in Physics (Nuclear Physics Theory), Louisiana State University
• Diploma in Physics (with concentration in Nuclear Physics and Elementary Particles), University Of Bucharest, Romania

Teaching

• Introduction to Astronomy, ASTR 1000
• Survey of Astronomy, ASTR 1400
• Introduction to Physics
• Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)

Research

• Low energy nuclear structure of heavy nuclei.
• Nuclear densities of light nuclei

Publications

Member

• Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (INPP)
• American Association of Physics Teachers
• American Physical Society

Research Projects with Students

• “The Effects of F-stop number of Pictures Resolution”, poster with student Hannah Fasilis at the Research Fair in Athens, OH. April 12, 2018. (Second prize in Undergraduate Early Childhood Education)
• “Time and Weather Dependent Solar Radiation on Earth’s Surface”, poster with students Bryce Whyde, Nick Slaboden, and Hannah Fasilis, at the Research Fair in Athens, OH. April 12, 2018.
• “ Wind Turbine Design ”, poster with student Eloria Shaw at the OSAPS at Western Michigan University, in Ypsilanti, MI, May 5, 2017.
• “Wind Turbine Design”, poster with student Eloria Shaw at the Research Fair in Athens, OH. April 6, 2017. (Second prize in Undergraduate Research in Physics)
• “Radiation in everyday environments”, poster with MacKenzie Gibson, at the the Research Fair in Athens, OH, April 7, 2017. (Third prize in Undergraduate Research in Physics)
• “ Translationally Invariant Local One-Body Densities for 6He ”, poster with Matt Burrow and C. Elster at OSAPS at Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, OH, October 8, 2016.
• “Systematics of Nuclear Level Densities”, Gabriela Popa and Frazier Baker, NUCLEAR THEORY, Vol. 33 eds. A. Georgieva, N. Minkov, Heron Press, Sofia, page 187, (2014)
• “ Automated evaluation of experimental data for nuclear level densities “, by Frazier Baker, Bryce Hina, Levi  Schneider, Gabrela Popa, Ohio-Region American Physical Society Meeting, at Youngstown University, April 2014, , and presented at the Creative Expo at Ohio University, April 2014.
• “Do tall people walk faster than short ones? By Andrew Murphy and Gabriela Popa, Ohio-Region American Physical Society Meeting, at University of Cincinnati, Oct 04, 2013, http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/OSF13/Session/C1.5
• “How fast can we walk?” poster with students, at Ohio Section of American Physical Society, Athens, Ohio, March 31, 2013. http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/OSS13/Event/195561.
• “Motion of balls in different media”, with students Steven Krall and Kristi Wilson, at Association for University Regional Campuses of Ohio, Wright State University-Lake Campus. April 9, 2011.
• “ Algebraic Model of the Nucleus ”, Joint Fall 2009 Meeting of the Ohio Sections of the APS and AAPT , October 9-10, 2009.