We would like to congratulate the following PhD graduates who successfully defended their thesis in the fall of 2025:
Thomas Ehrhardt
- Thesis title: Neutrino physics beyond the minimal Standard Model with IceCube DeepCore and PINGU
- Defense date: November 2025
- Institution/Thesis Advisor: JGU Mainz/Sebastian Böser
Wenjie Hou
- Thesis title: Research on the High-Energy Cosmic-Ray Anisotropies and Their Origins
- Defense date: December 2025
- Institution/Thesis Advisor: KIT/Ralph Engel, Andreas Huangs
Tista Mukherjee
- Thesis title: Chasing Cosmic Coincidences: Multi-Messenger Searches with Neutrinos and Gravitational Waves
- Defense date: October 2025
- Institution/Thesis Advisor: KIT/Ralph Engel, Andreas Huangs
Yuriy Popovych
- Thesis title: Development and Performance Evaluation of the Wavelength-shifting Optical Module for the IceCube Upgrade
- Defense date: October 2025
- Institution/Thesis Advisor: JGU Mainz/Sebastian Böser
Riya Shah
- Thesis title: A Multi-Channel, Simultaneous Fit Approach to Neutrino Source Searches: Combining Tracks and Cascades in IceCube
- Defense date: December 2025
- Institution/Thesis Advisor: Drexel University/Naoko Kurahashi-Neilson
Mark Weyrauch
- Thesis title: Reconstruction of the muon content of extensive air showers at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
- Defense date: November 2025
- Institution/Thesis Advisor: KIT/Ralph Engel, Andreas Huangs