Education:
Louisiana State University, 1982-83
B.A. with Honors in Physics, University of Chicago, December 1985.
M.S. Physics, University of Chicago, December 1986.
Ph.D. Physics, University of Chicago, June 1991.

Experience:
Graduate Research Assistant, University of Chicago, 5/86 to 12/90.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, 12/90 to 8/93.
Assistant Professor of Physics, Auburn University, 9/93 to 9/98.
Sabbatical at AMOLF FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 6/98-6/99.
Associate Professor of Physics, Auburn University, 9/98 to 9/03.
Professor of Physics, Auburn University, 9/03-present.
Alumni Professor of Physics, Auburn University, 9/04-9/09

Current Funding:
National Science Foundation, Atomic Theory

National Science Foundation, Plasma Physics
Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences
Department of Energy, Fusion Energy Sciences

 

Honors:
Harper Fellowship from University of Chicago, 1990.
National Science Foundation Young Investigator, 1994-9.
Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2002.
Alumni Professor, Auburn University, 2004-9.

SPS Faculty Award, The Quotable Award, Auburn Society of Physics Students, 2004
Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, Auburn Society of Physics Students, 2005

Outstanding Referee, American Physical Society, 2008.
Dean's Faculty Research Award, Auburn University College of Science and Mathematics, 2011.

John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research, 2011 (shared with several members of the ALPHA collaboration)

M.O.P. Award, Auburn Society of Physics Students, 2012

Eugene J. Clothiaux Faculty Teaching Award, Auburn University College of Science and Mathematics, 2012.

 

Prof. Robicheaux is an atomic theorist mainly focusing on time dependent atomic phenomena, highly excited (Rydberg) atoms, electron scattering, strong fields, and ultracold plasmas. He is a member of the ALPHA collaboration which was the first group to trap the antimatter version of the hydrogen atom and was the first group to perform experiments on anti-hydrogen. The research has a strong computational component so that the majority of results contain comparisons with past and predictions of future experimental results.

 

Five Recent Publications:  

(1) C. Amole, et al (ALPHA collaboration), "Resonant quantum transitions in trapped antihydrogen atoms," Nature 483, 439 (2012). proofs PDF (623 kB)

(2) G. B. Andresen, et al (ALPHA collaboration), "Confinement of antihydrogen for 1,000 seconds," Nature Physics 7, 558 (2011). PDF  (1260 kB) (Many online articles)

(3) G. B. Andresen, et al (ALPHA collaboration), "Trapped antihydrogen," Nature 468, 673 (2010). PDF (946 kB)   (Many online articles related to this publication)

(4) F. Robicheaux, S. D. Loch, M. S. Pindzola, and C. P. Balllance, "Contribution of near threshold states to recombination in plasmas," Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 233201 (2010).PDF (173 kB)

(5) A.L. Landers, F. Robicheaux, T. Jahnke, M. Schoffler, T. Osipov, J. Titze, S.Y. Lee, H. Adaniya, M. Hertlein, P. Ranitovic, I. Bocharova, D. Akoury, A. Bhandary, Th. Weber, M.H. Prior, C.L. Cocke, R. Dorner, and A. Belkacem, “Angular correlation between photoelectrons and Auger electrons from K-shell ionization of neon,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 223001 (2009). PDF (513 kB)

 

Full publication list is at http://www.auburn.edu/~robicfj/publications.htm