Chukman So
Applied Scientist
Dr. Chukman So has worked on the ALPHA experiment at CERN since his doctoral research, receiving his PhD at the University of California in 2014. He conducted postdoctoral work at Berkeley, University of Calgary and TRIUMF, and became an applied physicist at TRIUMF in 2023. He became an adjunct assistant professor at Calgary in the same year.
His research focuses on experimental design, simulation and fabrication in ALPHA and HAICU. He is specialised in high-powered normally conducting and superconducting magnets, cryo, vacuum, electrical and mechanical systems. He led the design of the ALPHA-g magnetic minimum trap, which precisely measures the gravitational mass of antihydrogen atoms, and the HAICU Bitter-magnetic trap, which aims to prepare micro-Kelvin scale hydrogen and antihydrogen atoms using laser and magnetic compression-expansion cooling for fountain interferometry.