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Wei Cui - Curriculum Vitae

Department of Physics Purdue University 1396 Physics Building West Lafayette, IN 47907-1396

Voice: (765) 494-5395 Fax: (765) 494-0706 Email: cui_at_purdue.edu URL: http://www.physics.purdue.edu/~cui

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Experimental Astrophysics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994
• M.S., Computational Condensed Matter Physics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1989
• B.S., Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, 1987

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Purdue University, 2005-present
• Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Purdue University, 2000-2005
• Research Scientist, Center for Space Research, MIT, 1994-2000

HONORS AND AWARDS

• University Faculty Scholar (2006-2011)
• NASA Group Award for the development, fabrication, and launch of the first X-ray microcalorimeter experiment (1998)
• NASA Group Award for the successful integration and test of the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (1996)
• CUSPEA finalist (1986)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

• Referee, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Astrophysical Journal, Astrophysical Journal Letters, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Science
• Reviewer, NASA's SMEX and MIDEX programs
• Reviewer, NASA's Guest Observing programs
• Reviewer, DoE's Advanced Detector Research program

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• American Astronomical Society
• High Energy Astrophysics Division

PUBLICATIONS