PhD theses granted – Fall 2022

We are pleased to announce the following PhD graduates who successfully defended their thesis in the fall of 2022:

Giovanni Renzi

  • Thesis title: Search for dark matter from the center of the Earth with ten years of IceCube data
  • Graduation date: December 2022
  • Institution/Thesis Advisor: Université libre de Bruxelles/Juan Antonio Aguilar

Stef Verpoest

  • Thesis title: Study of TeV muons in cosmic-ray air showers detected with IceTop and IceCube
  • Graduation date: December 2022
  • Institution/Thesis Advisor: Ghent University/Dirk Ryckbosch

Grant Parker

  • Thesis title: Strong Constraints on New Physics from the IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory
  • Graduation date: December 2022
  • Institution/Thesis Advisor: University of Texas at Arlington/Benjamin Jones

Kunal Deoskar

  • Thesis title: Search for neutrinos from precursors and afterglows of Gamma-ray Bursts using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
  • Graduation date: December 2022
  • Institution/Thesis Advisor: Stockholm University/Chad Finley

Sarah Mancina

  • Thesis title: Astrophysical Neutrino Source Searches Using IceCube Starting Tracks
  • Graduation date: November 2022
  • Institution/Thesis Advisor: University of Wisconsin–Madison/Albrecht Karle

Alexander Fritz

  • Thesis title: Kernkollaps-Supernovae: Eine Suche mit dem IceCube Neutrino-Observatorium (Core-collapse supernovae: A search with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory)
  • Graduation date: October 2022
  • Institution/Thesis Advisor: University of Mainz/Lutz Köpke

Roxanne Turcotte-Tardif

  • Thesis title: Radio Measurements of Cosmic Rays at the South Pole
  • Graduation date: October 2022
  • Institution/Thesis Advisor: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology/Frank Schröder