She has extensive experience in legal, public health and ethical issues related to women’s and children’s health. She also supervises the graduate program’s writing courses, master's capstone course, and doctoral capstone courses. She is an active educator in the graduate program, teaching a variety of courses in areas related to law, pediatrics, oral health, genetics, and professionalism.

Nanette Elster, JD, MPH, is an associate professor at the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. MPH, Boston University, School of Public Health, Boston, MA.JD, Loyola University, School of Law, Chicago, IL.She regularly practices her jumps and spins at Ohio University's Bird Arena during early morning hours.Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics, Stritch School of Medicine In 2001, Elster was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (Few-Body Systems and Multi-Particle Dynamics) 'for her significant contributions to the understanding of the nucleon-nucleon interaction and its applications in few-body systems and nuclear reactions.'Įlster's way to stay fit for her job is figure skating in which she combines physics and geometry to mutual advantage. In addition she uses her experience in describing few-body systems to model nuclear reactions. She has always been interested in using supercomputers to the limits, and in her research has developed new numerical tools to accurately model few-body systems. To unveil the mechanisms through which few-body systems are built, Elster employs high-performance computing methods using powerful supercomputers consisting of hundreds of processors to carry out complex modeling tasks. Nuclei with only few neutrons and protons, the few-body systems, are small enough to be accurately modeled yet complex enough to present great challenges. protons and neutrons) has set the stage for her current research on nuclei made up of few protons and neutrons.Īlthough much is now known about the strong forces between pairs of nucleons, there is much to learn about their dynamical roles in nuclei with many nucleons. Her early research on the strong force between nucleons (i.e.

Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (INPP) Personal ProfileĬharlotte Elster is a theoretical nuclear physicist.

Few-Nucleon Systems, Relativistic Effects in Few-Body Systems, Photoproduction of Mesons, Effective Field Theories, Nuclear Forces, Nuclear Reactions at Intermediate Energies, Computational Physics.

Ph.D., University of Bonn, Germany (1986) Research

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