PhD theses granted – Summer 2024

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

Chiara Bellenghi

  • Thesis title: The emergence of a new sky: First associations of IceCube high-energy neutrinos with Active Galactic Nuclei
  • Graduation date: September 2024
  • Institution/Thesis Advisor: Technical University of Munich/Elisa Resconi

Michael Campana

  • Thesis title: New Hypotheses and New Methods: Searching for Sources of Astrophysical Neutrinos from MeV-Gamma Ray Blazars and a Binned Likelihood Analysis of the Galactic Plane
  • Graduation date: September 2024
  • Institution/Thesis Advisor: Drexel University/Naoko Kurahashi Neilson

Kwok Lung (Jason) Fan

  • Thesis title: Multi-messenger search for galactic pevatron with HAWC and IceCube
  • Graduation date: August 2024
  • Institution/Thesis Advisor: University of Maryland/Greg Sullivan and Jordan Goodman

Leander Fischer

  • Thesis title: First Search for Heavy Neutral Leptons with IceCube DeepCore
  • Graduation date: July 2024
  • Institution/Thesis Advisor: DESY/Summer Blot and Marek Kowalski

Erik Ganster

  • Thesis title: Measurement of the High-Energy Astrophysical Neutrino Energy Spectrum Combining Muon Tracks and Cascades Measured at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
  • Graduation date: July 2024
  • Institution/Thesis Advisor: RWTH Aachen University/Christopher Wiebusch

Xinyue (Luna) Kang

  • Thesis title: Searching for Neutrino Emissions from the Galactic Center Region
  • Graduation date: September 2024
  • Institution/Thesis Advisor: Drexel University/Naoko Kurahashi Neilson

Richard Naab

  • Thesis title: Evidence for a break in the diffuse extragalactic neutrino spectrum
  • Graduation date: September 2024
  • Institution/Thesis Advisor: DESY/Markus Ackermann and Marek Kowalski

Ek Narayan Paudel

  • Thesis title: Radio Emission of Cosmic-ray Air Showers at the South Pole and a New IceTop Trigger
  • Graduation date: August 2024
  • Institution/Thesis Advisor: University of Delaware/Frank Schroeder

Nora Valtonen-Mattila

  • Thesis title: Searching for Neutrinos from the Death of Stars and Beyond: From MeV to PeV Energies
  • Graduation date: September 2024
  • Institution/Thesis Advisor: Uppsala University/Erin O’Sullivan