In-person participants
Adrian Finke (he/him/his)
Universität Münster, Institut für Theoretische Physik
MSc student
Research interests: I'm working on a precise calculation of the effective number of neutrinos (Neff) in the Standard Model, where I use the Schwinger–Keldysh formalism of nonequilibrium quantum field theory to derive the quantum kinetic equations.
Ahmet Selim Aydoğdu (he/him/his)
Bilkent University
BSc student
Research interests: -
Ana Luisa Foguel (she/her/her)
University of São Paulo/IFT-UAM
PhD student
Research interests: My main research focus on Beyond Standard Model phenomenology and Dark Matter, usually related to light new physics. Besides, I am also working in Leptogenesis/Baryogenesis models and Astrophysical BSM probes, such as Supernovae axion-like-particle emission.
Aske Mattheisen
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
MSc student
Research interests: -
Benedetta Corcione (she/her/her)
Sapienza Università di Roma
PhD student
Research interests: I am part of the PTOLEMY collaboration which aims to detect the cosmic neutrino background and to measure the mass of the neutrino. In my research, I'm currently working on the calorimetric part of the experiment, which regards the detection of low-energy electrons (from 100 eV and below) with transition-edge sensors (TESs). TESs are superconductive devices traditionally used as photon-number resolving detectors, which were never tested on such low kinetic energy electrons. Having succeeded in using TESs as single-electron detectors, I'm now focusing on their energy resolution performance and how to improve it.
Bruno Benkel (they/them/their)
DESY Zeuthen
PhD student
Research interests: Low energy neutrino oscillation studies using the IceCube detector.
Camilla Salerno (she/her/her)
Gran Sasso Science Institute
PhD student
Research interests: I studied particle physics. I worked with the DarkSide collaboration for Direct Detection of Dark Matter. In particular I worked on the developement of reconstruction algorithms for the new experiment DarkSide-20k. So I would like to continue my work with low energy particles, deepening my knowledge on neutrino physics.
Costanza Marinelli (she/her/her)
Gran Sasso Science Institute
PhD student
Research interests: I am a first-year PhD student. Since my Master's degree, I have been working on estimating the nuclear antimatter astrophysical background flux in our galaxy (within the AMS collaboration). I would like to extend my expertise to neutral messengers as well. In particular, I want to deepen my knowledge of neutrinos, as my project most likely will also involve working with the Auger collaboration.
Daria Borodulina
Laboratoire de Physique des Deux Infinis (LP2ib) de Bordeaux
PhD student
Research interests: I am currently 1st year PhD student of the University of Bordeaux, working in the DUNE experiment, with my project being about neutrino energy reconstruction in the Vertical Drift Far Detector. More specifically, I'm now studying the impact of the gaps between CRPs on the energy resolution for e/m showers. My previous experience is also in the field of neutrino physics. Namely, the master's thesis about research and development of an optically-segmented scintillator-based neutrino detector at ETH Zurich. And the bachelor's thesis was at the DANSS experiment in Russia. To sum up, I would say that while having some background in experimental neutrino physics, I might lack knowledge in the fields of neutrino cosmology and in theoretical aspects. Thus I am very interested in this school.
Dario Piani (he/him/his)
Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik
MSc student
Research interests: I am currently doing my Master thesis on Beyond the Standard Model analysis (Non-standard neutrino interactions, simplified light mediator models and electromagnetic properties of neutrinos) of new data from the CONUS/CONUS+ experiments for Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering from reactor neutrinos.
David Raudales (he/him/his)
Georgia Institute of Technology
PhD student
Research interests: My primary research focus is on multimessenger astrophysics, with an emphasis on modeling the emission of high-energy sources. Currently, I am contributing to the Trinity Neutrino Observatory—a planned imaging air Cherenkov telescope designed to detect Earth-skimming neutrinos. In this role, I assess the experiment's scientific capabilities by estimating expected event rates and constraining astrophysical source models.
stic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering from reactor neutrinos.
Davide Ciattaglia (he/him/his)
Sapienza Università di Roma
MSc student
Research interests: Cosmology, Particle Physics.
Deng Wang
IFIC/CSIC, Universitat de València
Postdoc
Research interests: Searching for neutrinos on cosmic scales
Diego Alberto Coloma Borja (he/him/his)
University of Padova
PhD student
Research interests: My research focus on the Icecube Neutrino experiment, particularly on the development and implementation of analysis tools for identification and of exceptional neutrino emissions from astrophysical sources, with the goal of with the goal of discovering new transient neutrino sources.
Eva Laura Winter (she/her/her)
Technical University of Munich
PhD student
Research interests: My research is part of the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment (P-ONE), a next-generation, cubic-kilometre-scale neutrino telescope currently in development. I focus on the optical module, specifically the production of optical gel pads for photomultiplier tubes and their quality control. Additionally, I am developing an automated database system to efficiently store and manage assembly and quality data for the optical modules. P-ONE aims to detect high-energy neutrinos, contributing to our understanding of astrophysical neutrino sources and fundamental particle interactions.
Fatih Yılmaz
Boğaziçi University
BSc student
Research interests: I'm currently deeply focused on general relativity and cosmology. I'm planning to specialise in areas such as supersymmetry, supergravity, string theory and quantum gravity.
rophysical neutrino sources and fundamental particle interactions.
Federico Testagrossa
DESY Zeuthen
PhD student
Research interests: Modelling neutrino and multi-wavelength emission from AGN blazars
Federico Testagrossa (he/him/his)
University of Padova
MSc student
Research interests: I am currently researching several topics related to sterile neutrino DM, mainly to be separated in: -viable variants to the Dodelson Widrow mechanism, -sterile neutrino self-interactions, -axion-neutrino couplings (not only specific to an assisted Dodelson Widrow mechanism).
Giacomo Pivetti (he/him/his)
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
MSc student
Research interests: I am currently in the second semester of the first year of my master's program in theoretical physics, where I am still learning about new topics and possible research directions for my thesis. In particular, I am interested in theoretical astroparticle physics and cosmology, as these fields provide a unique framework for studying particles and their interactions, including gravitational effects. Neutrinos are very interesting due to their fundamental yet problematic role in the context of particle physics and cosmology. Attending this summer school would allow me to deepen my understanding of neutrino physics, explore recent theoretical and phenomenological developments in the field, and potentially shape the direction of my master's thesis.
Giosuè Saibene
Università di Milano-Bicocca & INFN
PhD student
Research interests: I am currently working on is the ENUBET project. The goal is to develop the first “monitored neutrino beam”, where the neutrino flux can be measured with a 1% precision. The idea is to design a pure and controlled source of electron neutrinos and to monitor the neutrino flux directly inside the decay region by detecting large-angle leptons generated in the kaon three body decay using sampling calorimeters based on plastic scintillators and placed inside the decay tunnel. I work on the hardware developing, in the beamtest group and also in the beamtest data analysis (both simulation and real data).
Isha Loudon (she/her/her)
Université Libre de Bruxelles
PhD student
Research interests: My research is focused on neutrino astronomy with the Radar Echo Telescope project, which aims to use in-ice radar to detect ultra high energy cosmic neutrinos. The current form of the project is the Radar Echo Telescope for Cosmic Rays (RET-CR) pathfinder, a Greenland-based experiment utilising cosmic ray air showers to demonstrate the radar echo method in-situ. I have been exploring data taken by RET-CR in the summer of 2024, aided by simulations, with the aim of identifying signal properties that can then be applied towards the future RET-N neutrino telescope.
Jannes Loonen (he/him/his)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
PhD student
Research interests: PhD in neutrino astronomy through the radar echo telescope (RET) project. I'm investigating radar echo signatures from high-energy particle cascades induced by neutrinos in the polar ice. I'm currently developing reconstruction algorithms to probe RET's neutrino point source and transient source sensitivity, contributing to building the experiment's science case.
Jethro Stoffels
IIHE, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
PhD student
Research interests: Investigation of a Galactic signal with the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland (RNO-G).
Johannes Voss Jacobsen (he/him/his)
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
MSc student
Research interests: I'm currently writing my masters thesis with Mauricio, although it should already be done by the time the summer school starts. The work centers around the potential for discovering ultra heavy dark matter trapped inside the earth, detected by UHE neutrino signals in the IceCube Gen2 detector, coming from self-annihilation of the DM particles.
Jonas Buchholz (he/him/his)
Laboratoire de Physique des Deux Infinis (LP2ib) de Bordeaux
PhD student
Research interests: I am currently working on JUNO experiment, the PHD will be set in 2 part the first aim to study the Small PMTs system inside the central detector and the main second part is about the response of JUNO detector during the next galactic core-collapse supernovae.
Jorge Prado (he/him/his)
IFIC/CSIC, Universitat de València
PhD student
Research interests: I am a PhD student working on the KM3NeT experiment, focusing on Beyond Standard Model (BSM) physics using neutrinos detected by KM3NeT/ORCA. My research involves multiple analyses aimed at probing new physics scenarios: - The primary analysis of my PhD focuses on Non-Standard Interactions (NSI) in neutrino oscillations. By the time I complete my PhD, I aim to perform an NSI analysis using the latest available ORCA data, exploring potential deviations from the Standard Model predictions. - In parallel, I have been investigating the possible detection of Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) in KM3NeT/ORCA. These hypothetical particles, if present, would leave a distinctive signature in the detector: two well-separated showers, significantly farther apart than those produced by tau decays in the same energy regime. This unique event topology could serve as a key indicator of HNLs in the ORCA dataset. - Additionally, a major part of my PhD work has been dedicated to the development of Deep Learning techniques for reconstructing neutrino signals. This includes optimizing neural networks for event classification, energy estimation, and directional reconstruction, with the goal of improving the overall sensitivity of KM3NeT to both standard and BSM physics scenarios.
Julia Salwén (she/her/her)
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
MSc student
Research interests: I’m currently doing my master thesis with ATLAS, conducting NMSSM simulations using their data. I did my bachelor thesis with Professor Chad Finley at IceCube, doing a sensitivity study of high energy neutrinos depending on declination.
Karolina Filipowicz (she/her/her)
University of California, Santa Cruz
PhD student
Research interests: I am primarily interested in Dark Sectors with light dark matter candidates. In my master's thesis at Sapienza University of Rome, I studied Dark Pions from confining SO(N) Dark Sectors. Now, as a PhD student at UC Santa Cruz, I explore QCD axions and ALP interactions with Standard Model neutrinos. I am particularly interested in neutrino phenomenology.
Kevin Urquía
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
PhD student
Research interests: I work with phenomenological and theoretical aspects of extensions of the Standard Model that can address its problems, in particular the origin of neutrino masses.
Laksha Pradip Das (they/them/their)
University of Iowa
PhD student
Research interests: I am working in particle astrophysics. I am currently working in a project involving MCEq where we use MCEq to simulate atmospheric muon and neutrino fluxes based on some new theoretical models.
Lene van Rootselaar (she/her/her)
TU Dortmund University
PhD student
Research interests: My research topic is determining the electron neutrino spectrum using IceCube data.
Leonardo Perna (he/him/his)
Gran Sasso Science Institute & INFN LNGS
PhD student
Research interests: My research focuses on the search for neutrinoless double beta decay, a rare nuclear process that, if observed, would demonstrate that neutrinos are Majorana particles and provide insights into the absolute neutrino mass scale. As part of my PhD project, I work within the bolometer group of the CUORE and CUPID experiments, which use cryogenic calorimeters operated at millikelvin temperatures to detect the tiny signals associated with this decay. I would like to attend this school to deepen my understanding of neutrino physics, particularly in relation to the open questions surrounding their mass, nature, and role in the evolution of the universe. As my PhD research is focused on the search for neutrinoless double beta decay within the CUORE/CUPID collaborations, I believe that participating in this school would strengthen both my theoretical background and experimental perspective, while also giving me the opportunity to engage with leading experts and fellow young researchers in the field.
Lorenzo Valla (he/him/his)
INFN & Università di Bologna
MSc student
Research interests: I completed my master's degree in September 2024 with a thesis on the data analysis of the H->tautau process at the Muon Collider. Following my decision to get into neutrino physics, I am currently conducting 3 months of research at TUM, funded by an INFN scholarship, on the NUCLEUS experiment, which will be searching for the CEvNS using neutrinos coming from the Chooz nuclear power plant. Specifically, I am working on the optimization and testing of the COV (cryogenic outer veto) of the experiment, consisting of HPGe crystals, which will play a key role in achieving a background level low enough to observe for the first time the CEvNS signal with low-energy neutrinos.
Louise Lallement Arnaud (they/them/their)
Université Libre de Bruxelles
PhD student
Research interests: Search for fractionally charged particles with the IceCube telescope
Ludwig Neste (he/him/his)
Stockholm University
PhD student
Research interests: Currently, I work on the distribution of the galactic neutrino flux in space and energy with IceCube. In the future, I will shift my focus to machine learning based reconstructions and event selections.
Manish Tamta (he/him/his)
Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru)
PhD student
Research interests: I specialize in the synergy between gravitational lensing of gravitational waves (GWs) and electromagnetic waves, along with dark matter, astroparticle physics, and cosmology. I am currently involved in a research project at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, where I explore the phenomenology of wave optics GW lensing. This work aims to deepen our understanding of the universe’s structure. Neutrino physics is something that I want to learn through this school.
Marc Jacquart (he/him/his)
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
PhD student
Research interests: Using inelasticity to enhance the Neutrino mass ordering sensitivity of the IceCube Upgrade. I am working on IceCube Upgrade simulation data to reconstruct the inelasticity of the neutrino interaction. Knowing the inelasticity allows for a statistical neutrino/antineutrino separation that enhances the Neutrino mass ordering sensitivity of the detector. (arXiv:2402.13308v1)
Marie Cornelius (she/her/her)
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
PhD student
Research interests: I study neutrino flavor conversions in dense astrophysical environments such as core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers.
Martin Langgård Ravn
Uppsala University
PhD student
Research interests: Detection and reconstruction of ultra-high energy neutrinos
María Durán de las Heras (she/her/her)
Uppsala University
MSc student
Research interests: I am currently doing my Master's Thesis on the prospects of detecting quark star features with IceCube. The project aims to evaluate if IceCube can observe the electron antineutrino signal that comes from the hadron-quark phase transition (a possibly distinctive feature of quark stars). During my Master's, I also did a research project in simulating Askaryan radiation from ultra-high energy neutrinos with Corsika-8. In general, I have been closely working in neutrino astronomy since my bachelor's thesis, where I explored the influence of orography in the detection of UHE tau neutrinos at the Pierre Auger Observatory.
Mayank Tripathi (he/him/his)
University of Chicago
Postdoc
Research interests: My research has been deeply rooted in experimental neutrino physics and dark matter searches. As a Ph.D. student, I worked on coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) with the Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills (CCM) experiment at Los Alamos National Lab, where I contributed to detector calibration, background characterization, and data analysis. My thesis focused on leveraging CCM for dark matter searches, setting world-competitive limits on light dark matter interactions. Additionally, I was involved in the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab, contributing to neutrino oscillation studies. Currently, as a postdoctoral researcher with the PICO collaboration, I am working on direct dark matter detection. However, my interest in neutrino physics remains strong, and I am eager to expand my expertise in neutrino interactions and phenomenology. Attending this summer school would allow me to engage with leading researchers, refine my understanding of neutrino physics, and apply these insights to future experiments at the intersection of neutrino and dark matter physics. Although I am a postdoc, my prior Ph.D. research aligns closely with the school’s focus, and I believe my participation would bring valuable perspectives from both neutrino and dark matter searches. I hope you will consider my application despite my current position, as I remain committed to advancing in the field of neutrino physics.
Michael Hrywniak
Stockholm University
MSc student
Research interests: I am currently working on my masters' thesis with the neutrino sources group at the Icecube Neutrino Observatory. My project consists of doing a stacking analysis looking for sources of high energy astrophysical neutrinos. Specifically, I'm investigating galaxy clusters as a possible class of sources of neutrinos and cosmic rays.
Ojas Bhardwaj
University of Bonn
MSc student
Research interests: I am currently investigating decaying heavy particle models that can explain the observed very high energy neutrino flux (> 100 TeV) detected by the IceCube and KM3NeT observatories for my master's thesis. My research focuses on developing models that are consistent with or extend the standard model gauge symmetries which can reproduce the observed neutrino flux without overproducing other particles for example high energy photons.
Philip Fredholm
Lund University
MSc student
Research interests: I am currently working matching a model called 'the trinification model' to the standard model using an effective field theory as my master's thesis project.
Pravita Hallur (she/her/her)
University of Amsterdam & NIKHEF
PhD student
Research interests: Multimessenger Signals from Core-Collapse Supernovae This project aims to connect detailed neutrino and GW signals from state-of-the-art simulations of supernovae with realistic detector pipelines for XENON and KamLAND to determine the feasibility of signal detection and their potential to constrain the parameters of supernova explosion mechanisms and progenitor stars.
Rita Feriozzi (she/her/her)
Gran Sasso Science Institute
PhD student
Research interests: I am an experimental physicist who worked on the LEGEND experiment for neutrinoless double-beta decay research during both my bachelor's and master's degrees, and I am currently continuing my work with the experiment during my PhD.
Sharif El Mentawi (he/him/his)
Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM)
PhD student
Research interests: I work on data analysis in KM3NeT ORCA, in the field of neutrino oscillations. Here, my main goals are to: * measure the tau neutrino charged current interaction cross section * search for non-unitarity in the neutrino mixing matrix
Silke Egholm (she/her/her)
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
MSc student
Research interests: Fundamental Theories in Physics in general (SM+GR), especially the Weak Interaction
Sofia Stepanoff (she/her/her)
Georgia Institute of Technology
PhD student
Research interests: I work in the Trinity Collaboration at Georgia Tech on the Trinity Demonstrator an image atmospheric Cherenkov telescope based out of Utah, United States. I have been working on this project from commissioning where I helped set up the needed software to run our telescope. Now that we are collecting data I am working towards my thesis where I will curate a source list of AGN/Blazar based on their expectation of PeV neutrino emission from them and detection probability with the Trinity Demonstrator, utilizing models and multi-messenger links to choose sources. If a source can be observed with Trinity Demonstrator, I will determine an upper limit neutrino flux and probability for detection within a year based off of observational data.
Tanvi Krishnan
Harvard University
PhD student
Research interests: I am a member of the IceCube collaboration, and I have been working on quantum decoherence this past year. My work is primarily computational and data-analysis oriented, but I am planning to begin a phenomenological project soon. I am still narrowing down my more specific interests, but am interested in exploring neutrino phenomenology and learning more about the field of astroparticle physics, having recently switched over from accelerator-based neutrino experiments.
Thomas Delmeulle (he/him/his)
IIHE, Université Libre de Bruxelles
PhD student
Research interests: The title of my Ph.D. research is: "Search for Extremely High-Energy Neutrinos using Machine Learning-based Methods with the IceCube Neutrino Telescope". This thesis focuses on the simulation of neutrinos with energies exceeding 1 PeV and the analysis of data from the IceCube detector to identify EHE events using machine-learning-based methods.
Thong Nguyen (he/him/his)
Stockholm University
PhD student
Research interests: Dark Matter Indirect Detection, using Gamma-Ray and Neutrino data. Cosmic Rays and Gamma-Rays Physics. Dark Matter detection using celestial bodies.
Yifei Li
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
MSc student
Research interests: -
Youyou Li (she/her/her)
GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam
PhD student
Research interests: Main projects: Modeling cosmic ray transport and high-energy emissions from Galactic accelerators, such as pulsar wind nebulae and young compact star clusters. Collaborating projects: (1) Investigating the formation and evolution of dark matter halos and their annihilation signals in the cold dark matter scenario. (2) Studying the impact of neutrino mass on structure formation at the scale of dark matter subhalos.
