Merit Award Recipients 2022

2022 Merit Award Winners

Graduate Student

• Yingying Shi: For her significant contributions to the STAR forward upgrade program, including prototyping, mass production, and quality assurance of the Forward sTGC Tracker.

Postdoctoral Fellows

• Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli: For his numerous key contributions to measuring and interpreting jet and jet-like correlations at RHIC, and for his service as working group convener in STAR.
• Xu Sun: For his key contributions to STAR Forward Silicon Tracker construction, commissioning and operations in Run22, and breakthrough discovery of global spin alignment of phi mesons in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC.
• Zaochen Ye: For his dedication to STAR Time-of-Flight detector operation and calibration, and breakthrough analysis of dielectron continuous spectra related to the QGP radiation.