We would like to congratulate the following PhD graduates who successfully defended their theses in the summer of 2025:
Kathrine Mørch Groth
- Thesis title: Neutrinos as unique probes of physics on cosmic to quantum scales
- Defense date: June 2025
- Institution/Thesis Advisor: University of Copenhagen/Markus Ahlers
David Guevel
- Thesis title: Cross Correlation of IceCube Neutrinos with Tracers of Large Scale Structure
- Defense date: July 2025
- Institution/Thesis Advisor: University of Wisconsin–Madison/Ke Fang
Christoph Günther
- Thesis title: The Acoustic Calibration System for the IceCube Upgrade
- Defense date: September 2025
- Institution/Thesis Advisor: RWTH Aachen University/ Christopher Wiebusch
Yarno Merckx
- Thesis title: From Cosmic Crashes to High-Energy Neutrinos
- Defense date: September 2025
- Institution/Thesis Advisor: Vrije Universiteit Brussel/Krijn de Vries, Nick van Eijndhoven
Julian Saffer
- Thesis title: Spectrum of Light Cosmic Rays in the PeV Energy Range Measured with IceCube
- Defense date: July 2025
- Institution/Thesis Advisor: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology/Ralph Engel, Andreas Huangs
Shefali Shefali
- Thesis title: Production, Calibration and Performance of the Scintillation Detectors for the IceCube Surface Array Enhancement
- Defense date: August 2025
- Institution/Thesis Advisor: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology/Ralph Engel, Andreas Huangs
Jessie Thwaites
- Thesis title: Searches for transient astrophysical neutrino sources in real time with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
- Defense date: August 2025
- Institution/Thesis Advisor: University of Wisconsin–Madison/Justin Vandenbroucke