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 |
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| 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 andBarry Barish |
| Website | Official website |
Kate Scholberg is a Canadian and Americanneutrino physicist whose research has included experimental studies ofneutrino oscillation,coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering and the detection ofsupernovae. She is currently the Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of Physics and Bass Fellow atDuke 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 anorganic chemistry course, she changed her focus to physics.[2] She graduated with a B.Sc. fromMcGill University in 1989, and completed her M.S. and Ph.D. at theCalifornia Institute of Technology in 1996[1], under the joint supervision of Charles W. Peck andBarry 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". TheMACRO experiment was originally designed to search formagnetic monopoles,[2] at theLaboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy.[4]
After postdoctoral research atBoston University, and a junior faculty position at theMassachusetts 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]
Scholberg is a researcher in theSuper-Kamiokande andTokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) collaborations, theDeep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), and the COHERENT detector at theSpallation Neutron Source of theOak Ridge National Laboratory.[1][5] She has also been instrumental in the development and coordination of theSuperNova Early Warning System.[2]
In 2013 Scholberg was named aFellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination by the APS Division of Particles and Fields, "for work with atmospheric and accelerator neutrinos that established the phenomenon of neutrino oscillation, and for leadership in the worldwide effort of the supernova neutrino detection".[6] She was elected a member of the U.S.National Academy of Sciences in May 2022.[7] In 2023 Scholberg was awarded Fellow of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science.[8]
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