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