Glenn Decker has worked at the Advanced Photon Source, in a variety of capacities for the past 30 years.

He has worked as storage ring manager during the construction phase of the project in the early 1990s and as such is an expert in many areas of particle accelerator technology.

His specialty as the former accelerator diagnostics group leader dealt  with detectors and systems responsible for stabilizing the X-ray beams generated by the APS storage ring at the level of thousandths of a millimeter.

Presently, he is the Associate Project Manager for the APS-U Accelerator.

Education

• Experimental Accelerator Physics, M.S. 1984, Ph.D., 1986, Cornell University
• Physics, B.S.,1980,  Colorado School of Mines

Awards, Honors and Memberships

• Recipient, University of Chicago Distinguished Performance Award
• Fellow, American Physical Society