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Brenda Dingus is a researcher of astrophysics. She is the principal investigator and operations manager of the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) TeV gamma-ray observatory for the Department of Energy (DOE) High Energy Physics program.

Dr. Dingus is a Lab Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. She was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2000.

Career
Brenda Dingus received a B.S. in physics with academic distinction and physics department honors at the Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA in 1982 and a PhD in experimental cosmic-ray physics at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD in 1988.

She led the gamma-ray burst analysis of the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) at the University Space Research Association at NASA/Goddard from 1991 to 1996. Then she became an assistant professor of physics at the University of Utah and an associate professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin Madison. During her academic work, she continued working on the EGRET and started to work on the Milagro collaboration.

In 2000 she became the NASA Interdisciplinary Scientist for the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, formerly GLAST, mission at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dr. Dingus was the Milagro Run Manager and currently is the operations manager of the High Altitude Water Cherenkov at LANL.

She continues working at LANL as a staff scientist since 2002.

Research Contributions
Dr. Dingus has published more than 140 papers with over 23000 citations.

Hew contribution to the HAWC detector allowed searching for evidence of new physics in the TeV sky, such as gamma-rays from the annihilation or decay of dark matter.

Awards

 * 2013 LANL Performance Award for Leading the Construction of HAWC
 * 2010 Fellow of Los Alamos National Lab
 * 2008 LANL Star Award
 * 2006 Fellow of the American Physical Society
 * 2000 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
 * 1997 Research Innovation Award