RESEARCH:
My research interest is focused on the direct detection of dark matter. I am involved in
all aspects of design, construction and operation of liquid noble gas detectors for rare-event
searches, including data analysis and Monte Carlo modeling. As a graduate student I worked on the
XENON10 experiment.
I am presently a member of the
LUX collaboration.
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. in Physics, Brown University, May 2008
Ph.D. dissertation available electronically [pdf].
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
- "Constraints on inelastic dark matter from XENON10", Phys. Rev. D 80 115005 (2009) [pdf] [arXiv] (ca)
- "The scintillation and ionization yield of liquid xenon for nuclear recoils", Nucl. Instru. Meth. A 601 331 (2009) [pdf] [arXiv] (ca)
- "Limits on spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross-sections from XENON10", Phys. Rev. Lett. 101 091301 (2008) [pdf] [arXiv]
- "First results from the XENON10 dark matter experiment", Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 021303 (2008) [pdf] [arXiv]
- "Backgrounds and threshold of the XENON10 dark matter experiment", Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop for Identification of Dark Matter, World Scientific, Singapore, 2006 [pdf]
- "The XENON dark matter search experiment", New Astronomy Reviews 49 289 (2005) [pdf] [arXiv]
(ca) corresponding author
SELECTED TALKS:
- NYU Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, 23 March 2009, New York, NY [slides] [website] **
- SNOWPAC: workshop on particle astrophysics, astronomy and cosmology, 1-7 February 2009, Snowbird, UT [slides] [website]
- New paradigms for dark matter, 5-6 December 2008, Davis, CA [slides] [website] **
- American Physical Society meeting, 11-15 April 2008, St Louis MO [slides] [website]
- The dark side of the universe, 5-10 June 2007, Minneapolis, Mn [slides] [website]
- The 6th international workshop on the identification of dark matter, 11-16 September 2006, Rhodes, Greece [slides] [website]
** invited talk
TEACHING:
- Instructor, Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (summer 2001/2002) -
Planned and taught a course in physics and engineering to students ages 11-16
- Teaching Assistant, Brown University.
Lecture and grading for laboratory sections of general physics courses.
ETC:
- Critic, conoisseur and cataloguer of the vine
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post-doctoral researcher