We would like to congratulate the following PhD graduates who successfully defended their theses in the spring (April-June) of 2026:
Najia Moureen Binte Amin
- Thesis title: Discerning High-Energy Neutrinos from Atmospheric Background in the Southern Sky with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
- Defense date: June 2026
- Institution/Thesis Advisor: University of Delaware/David Seckel
Shannon Gray
- Thesis title: Search for Neutrinos Correlated with Tidal Disruption Events in IceCube
- Defense date: May 2026
- Institution/Thesis Advisor: University of Maryland/Greg Sullivan
Alexander Harnisch
- Thesis title: Improving IceCube’s Sensitivity to Astrophysical Neutrino Sources
- Defense date: June 2026
- Institution/Thesis Advisor: Michigan State University/Nathan Whitehorn
Rachel Procter-Murphy
- Thesis title: Search for Coincident Neutrinos From Luminous Astrophysical Transients With the IceCube Neutrino Detector
- Defense date: June 2026
- Institution/Thesis Advisor: University of Maryland/Kara Hoffman
Philip Weigel
- Thesis title: Searches for Non-Standard Neutrino Oscillations with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
- Defense date: May 2026
- Institution/Thesis Advisor: Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Janet Conrad