Dr. David Heddle

Dr. David Heddle is a worker for Hall B at Jefferson Lab. He earned a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in 1984 under Professor Leonard Kisslinger and began working at JLab in 1989. His main research interests are nuclear physics, data visualization, and data analysis.

Dr. Heddle collaborates with Dr. Robert Fersch and has a graduate student, Justin Ruger, working with him.

Physics/Software Development
Dr. Heddle created a Wien Filter for rotating polarized electrons before joining the Physics Division and Hall B. During his time working for Hall B, he has created various software developments, including visualization, noise finding, and service oriented architecture.

Other
Dr. Heddle's doctoral dissertation was on hypernuclear decay rates in a quark model. Dr. Heddle served as a postdoctoral associate at the University of Maryland and a research physicist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where he began his studies in accelerator physics.

Dr. Heddle served as the chair of the Mathematics Department at Christopher Newport University from 2011 to May 2013.

Dr. Heddle's areas of interest in computer science include MySQL, building wikis, XML, Java, and JavaFX (which allows users to create and display 3D models within Java).

Links/Sources
Hall B Staff Bios: Dr. Heddle: http://www.jlab.org/Hall-B/staff/bios/bio-heddle.html