Kate Scholberg
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Kate Scholberg | |
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| Education | McGill University (B.Sc.), California Institute of Technology (M.S., Ph.D) |
| Known for | Supernova Neutrino Astronomy, Neutrino Oscillations |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Particle Physics, Astrophysics, Neutrinos |
| Institutions | Duke University |
| Thesis | "A Search for Neutrinos from Gravitational Collapse with the MACRO Experiment" |
| Doctoral advisors | Charles W. Peck and Barry Barish |
| Website | Official website |
Kate Scholberg is a Canadian and American neutrino physicist whose research has included experimental studies of neutrino oscillation, coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering and the detection of supernovae. She is currently the Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of Physics and Bass Fellow at Duke University.[1]
As a child in Canada, Scholberg was interested in astronomy from a young age, but as a teenager she became interested in chemistry and entered college planning to become a chemist. However, after a bad experience in an organic chemistry course, she changed her focus to physics.[2] She graduated with a B.Sc. from McGill University in 1989, and completed her M.S. and Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology in 1996[1], under the joint supervision of Charles W. Peck and Barry Barish.[3] Her interest in neutrino physics developed out of her graduate work; thesis titled "A Search for Neutrinos from Gravitational Collapse with the MACRO Experiment". The MACRO experiment was originally designed to search for magnetic monopoles,[2] at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy.[4]
After postdoctoral research at Boston University, and a junior faculty position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she moved to Duke University in 2004.[3][4] Before becoming Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of Physics at Duke, she was the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Physics there.[4]
Research collaborations
Scholberg is a researcher in the Super-Kamiokande and Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) collaborations, the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), and the COHERENT detector at the Spallation Neutron Source of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.[1][5] She has also been instrumental in the development and coordination of the SuperNova Early Warning System.[2]
