PhD theses granted – Summer 2025

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