PhD theses granted – Winter 2025

We would like to congratulate the following PhD graduates who successfully defended their thesis in the winter of 2024/2025:

Vedant Basu

  • Thesis title: Characterization of the Diffuse Astrophysical All-Flavour Neutrino Spectrum using IceCube Events With Contained Vertex
  • Defense date: March 2025
  • Institution/Thesis Advisor: University of Wisconsin–Madison/Albrecht Karle

Jakob Böttcher

  • Thesis title: Exploring Atmospheric Neutrino Fluxes Seasonal Variations and Prompt Neutrino Search in the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
  • Defense date: March 2025
  • Institution/Thesis Advisor: RWTH Aachen University/Christopher Wiebusch

Ava Ghadimi

  • Thesis title: Probing Magnetars as Potential High-Energy Neutrino Emitters with IceCube
  • Defense date: March 2025
  • Institution/Thesis Advisor: University of Alabama/Marcos Santander

Tetiana Kozynets

  • Thesis title: Atmospheric neutrino oscillations in IceCube-DeepCore within and beyond the unitary framework
  • Defense date: January 2025
  • Institution/Thesis Advisor: University of Copenhagen/Jason Koskinen

Neha Lad

  • Thesis title: Measurement of Astrophysical Neutrino Flavour Composition with Twelve Years of IceCube Data
  • Defense date: March 2025
  • Institution/Thesis Advisor: DESY/Markus Ackermann and Marek Kowalski

Timo Stürwald

  • Thesis title: Faint Signatures in IceCube
  • Defense date: December 2024
  • Institution/Thesis Advisor: University of Wuppertal/Klaus Helbing

Zelong Zhang

  • Thesis title: Measurement of the Astrophysical Neutrino Flux Using Eleven Years of IceCube Data in the Cascade Channel
  • Defense date: February 2025
  • Institution/Thesis Advisor: Stony Brook University/Joanna Kiryluk