Evangeline J. Downie is a Professor of Physics and the Associate Dean of Research and Strategic Initiatives in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences of the George Washington University.
She is an experimental nuclear physicist who studies the structure and dynamics of the building blocks of all matter, protons and neutrons, using beams of electrons, muons, and photons.
She was the spokesperson of the MUSE experiment, at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland, and is co-spokesperson of several experiments within the A2 collaboration, based at the MAMI accelerator in Mainz, Germany.
She recently served as the part of the Chair Line of the National Organizing Committee of the American Physical Society's Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP), is a APS Skills Seminar facilitator for Communication and Negotiation Training for Women, and began a term on the Committee on the Status of Women in Physics in January 2020. She served on the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC) of NSF and the DOE from 2020 - 2023 and was part of the writing committee for the 2023 Long Range Plan for Nuclear Science: A New Era.
Her research and outreach activities have been funded by several grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), under award numbers PHY-2310026, PHY-2012940, PHY-1714833, PHY-1622510, PHY-1614850, and OISE-1358175, and from the DOE DE-SC0012485, and DE-SC0016581.
