We are excited to announce the third WATCHEP training cohort, for the period 2025-2027. A total of six students were selected in a competitive process that took into account their proposed research, community engagement, initiative, and leadership. Read more about this year’s cohort in the “Trainees” tab in the top menu.

  • Levi Condren (Univ. of California, Irvine)
  • Abdelrahman Elabd (Univ. of Washington)
  • Martina Hebert (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
  • Jackson O’Donnell (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz)
  • Justine Partridge (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz)
  • Jason Weitz (Univ. of California, San Diego)

WATCHEP is a training program with the goal of developing a workforce of experts in computational high-energy physics. Graduate student trainees from the partner universities will complete a tailored instructional curriculum and a supervised research project in a relevant topical area. Trainees are provided financial support during their training period in the program.

This cohort is divided into three major focus areas: collaborative software infrastructure, hardware-software co-design, and high-performance computing. They will work with university and laboratory mentors on computational research projects and follow advanced online training modules. The cohort will also participate in a series of hands-on summer training sessions during their two-year term.