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Research Experience

  • NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

    • ​May 2010 – August 2010

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD

    • Assisted Dr. Zachary Levine in an investigation of the theoretical limitations of a radiology standard (RECIST) in computed tomography.

  • Senior Design Project: Spectrometer Deconvolution

    • August 2010 – May 2011

    • Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO

    • Worked with Dr. Charles Durfee to measure the delta function response of an optical spectrometer in order to computationally deconvolve measured data and improve the spectral resolution.

  • M.S. Research Topic: Transient Grating Apparatus

    • June 2011 – May 2012

    • Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO

    • Worked with Dr. Charles Durfee to design and construct a novel transient grating optical apparatus to measure the ultrafast temporal and spectral response of semiconductor samples with sensitivity to the complex index of refraction.

  • Ph.D. Research Topic: Mid-IR Driven High Harmonic Generation

    • June 2012 – Present

    • University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

    • Worked with Dr. Henry Kapteyn and Dr. Margaret Murnane in the advancement and application of a tabletop source of extreme ultraviolet and soft X-ray radiation, enabled by a process called High Harmonic Generation.

    • Experimentally and theoretically investigated the mechanisms that limit the energy and fluence of High Harmonic Generation sources, leading to improvements in the technology and new records in the spatial resolution of microscopy using such sources.

  • LLNL Laser Wakefield Acceleration Project

    • May 2014 – August 2014

    • Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, CA

    • Assisted Dr. Bradley Pollock and Dr. Felicie Albert in an unprecedented investigation of the self-modulated regime of laser wakefield acceleration performed on the Titan laser.

Work Experience

  • Undergraduate Internship

    • February 2010 – June 2011

    • ITN Energy Systems, Littleton, CO

    • Performed X-ray diffraction, ATR spectroscopy, spectroscopic ellipsometry, and standards research on thin film products developed in-house.

    • Designed, assembled, and programmed an automated optics system to perform precise photopic transmission measurements of electrochromic windows for lifetime and uniformity testing.

Curriculum Vitae

  • Rocky Mountain Electric League Scholarship  (2008 - 2010)

  • President’s Scholarship,  Colorado School of Mines  (2008 - 2010)

  • Dean’s List,  Colorado School of Mines  (2009 – 2012)

  • Graduated Summa Cum Laude,  Colorado School of Mines  (May 2011)

  • Distinguished Physics Student Award,  Colorado School of Mines  (May 2011)

  • Peter Henning Fellowship,  University of Colorado, Boulder  (2012 – 2013)

  • Krell Foundation NNSA SSGF Fellowship  (2013 – 2017)

  • Outstanding Poster Award,  NNSA SSAP Symposium  (02/18/2014)

  • Poster Honorable Mention,  LLNL Summer Student Poster Symposium  (08/07/2015)

  • Essay Winner, 2017 DOE NNSA SSGF Essay Slam Contest  (06/22/2017)

Awards
Skills

  • Programming: Mathematica, C++, Python, Arduino, LaTeX; Some MATLAB

  • Software: MS Office, Solidworks, COMSOL, Blender; Some ZEMAX, LabVIEW

  • Optics: interferometry, spectroscopy, imaging, nonlinear optics, beam profiling, transient absorption, FROG, coherent diffraction, spectroscopic ellipsometry, waveguiding

  • Other: machine shop, vacuum systems, simulation, data analysis

  • Z. H. Levine, B. R. Galloway, A. P. Peskin, C. P. Heußel, and J. J. Chen, Tumor volume measurement errors of RECIST studied with ellipsoids, Med. Phys. 38(5), 2552-2557 (2011).

  • Z. H. Levine, B. R. Galloway, A. P. Peskin, RECIST applied to realistic tumor models, J. Res. Natl. Inst. Stand. Technol. 116(3), 685-688 (2011).

  • B. R. Galloway, C. G. Durfee, Development of a passively stable and dispersion compensated transient grating apparatus to measure ultrafast dynamics, Co. Sch. Mines Dept. Phys. Thesis 6986 (2012).

  • M. Iliev, A. Meier, B. R. Galloway, D. Adams, J. A. Squier, C. G. Durfee, Measurement of energy contrast of amplified ultrashort pulses using cross-polarized wave generation and spectral interferometry, Opt. Ex. 22(15), 17968-17978 (2014).

  • M.-C. Chen, C. Mancuso, C. Hernández-García, F. Dollar, B. R. Galloway, D. Popmintchev, P.C. Huang, B. Walker, L. Plaja, A. A. Jaron-Becker, A. Becker, M. M. Murnane, H. C. Kapteyn, and T. Popmintchev, Generation of bright isolated attosecond soft X-ray pulses driven by multicycle midinfrared lasers, PNAS 111(23), 8329-8330 (2014).

  • B. R. Galloway, D. Popmintchev, E. Pisanty, D. D. Hickstein, M. M. Murnane, H. C. Kapteyn, and T. Popmintchev, Lorentz drift compensation in high harmonic generation in the soft and hard X-ray regions of the spectrum, Opt. Ex. 24(19), 21818-21832 (2016).

  • D. F. Gardner, M. Tanksalvala, E. R. Shanblatt, X. Zhang, B. R. Galloway, C. R. Porter, R. Karl-Jr., C. Bevis, D. E. Adams, H. Kaptyen, M. Murnane, G. F. Mancini, Subwavelength coherent imaging of periodic samples using a 13.5 nm tabletop high-harmonic light source, Nat. Phot. 11, 259-263 (2017).

  • E. Pisanty, D. D. Hickstein, B. R. Galloway, C. G. Durfee, H. C. Kapteyn, M. M. Murnane, M. Ivanov, High-harmonic interferometry of the Lorentz force in strong mid-infrared laser fields, (submitted).

  • D. Popmintchev, B. R. Galloway, M.-C. Chen, F. Dollar, C. Mancuso, L. Miaja-Avila, G. O'Neil, J. Shaw, G. Fan, S. Ališauskas, G. Andriukaitis, T. Balčiunas, O. D. Mücke, A. Pugzlys, A. Baltuška, H. C. Kapteyn, T. Popmintchev, and M. M. Murnane, Near and extended edge X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy using ultrafast coherent supercontinua, (in prep).

Publications

Ph.D.      AMO Physics                    University of Colorado, Boulder

                  In Progress                        GPA: 3.778

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M.S.        Applied Physics                Colorado School of Mines

                  May 2012                           GPA: 3.922

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B.S.         Engineering Physics        Colorado School of Mines

                  May 2011                           GPA: 4.000

Education

  • Speaker, NIST 2010 colloquium

  • Poster, Colorado School of Mines 2011 physics poster session

  • Speaker, Rocky Mountain section of the Optical Society of America 04/19/2012 seminar

  • Speaker, Colorado School of Mines physics colloquium 04/24/2012

  • Poster, NNSA SSAP symposium 06/27/2013

  • Poster, NNSA SSAP symposium 02/18/2014 – Outstanding Poster Award

  • Poster, NNSA SSGF Fellowship program review 06/28/2016

  • Speaker, NNSA SSGF Fellowship program review 06/22/2017

Presentations
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