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Maximilian Amerl

Maximilian Amerl’s areas of research are associated with triggering and jet reconstruction in searches for dark matter with the ATLAS Experiment.

People, Past MembersJosh Cohen5 August 2021Domestic

Samuel Thompson

Sam Thompson is a Master's student working under the supervision of Professor Cedric Simenel. Sam's area of research is the interaction of dark matter with nuclei and neutron stars.

PeopleJosh Cohen22 July 2021Domestic, Student

Ferdos Dastgiri

Ferdos Dastgiri is a PhD student working on dark matter Direct Detection and Metrology in SABRE and CYGNUS.

People, Direct Detection, MetrologyGuest User22 July 2021Domestic, anu, Past

Jeremy Bourhill

Dr Jeremy Bourhill has rejoined the team at the Quantum Technologies and Dark Matter (QDM) Laboratory, UWA, as a Research Asosciate after working for IMT Atlandique in Brest, France.

PeopleJosh Cohen15 July 2021Domestic, Postdocs, EDI Committee

William Melbourne

Dr William Melbourne is working on the development of SABRE, a direct detection experiment. His PhD focussed on the characterisation of the light sensitive detectors used to study interactions in the detector as well as event simulation and reconstruction.

PeopleJosh Cohen20 May 2021Past

Madeleine Zurowski

Dr Madeleine Zurowski works in the area of experimental particle physics. She completed a PhD at the University of Melbourne which focused on assessing the response of the SABRE detector to backgrounds and different dark matter models. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto, Canada.

PeopleJosh Cohen20 May 2021Domestic, Associate Investigators

Yiyi Zhong

Yiyi Zhong’s area of research is SABRE experimental backgrounds: simulations and measurements of the cosmogenic radiobackgrounds in NaI(Tl), measurements of the intrinsic backgrounds in the crystal powder, and veto liquid scintillator characterization and background measurements.

People, ANU, Direct DetectionJosh Cohen20 April 2021Contact Officer, Postdocs

Daniel Tempra

Technical staff

PeopleJosh Cohen19 April 2021Domestic, Technical Staff

Karl Jakobs

Professor Karl Jakobs (Uni of Freiburg) is an experimental particle physicist with a well-established career using detectors situated at particle colliders.

PeopleFleur Morrison27 January 2021Partner Investigations, International

Federico Scutti

Dr Federico Scutti is a postdoctoral researcher at Swinburne University of Technology and has previously worked on Heavy Neutrino research with data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.

People, Direct DetectionGuest User20 January 2021Domestic, SUT, Past

Aidan Byrne

Professor Aidan Byrne (Advisory Board Chair) commenced as the Provost and Senior Vice-President of The University of Queensland in 2016.

PeopleJosh Cohen30 December 2020Advisory Board

Sue Barrell

Sue retired from her role as Chief Scientist at the Bureau of Meteorology in 2018, the culmination of a long Bureau career spanning forecasting, research, science/climate/data policy and leadership roles in IT, observations, engineering and science.

PeopleJosh Cohen29 December 2020Advisory Board

Elisabetta Barberio

As Centre Director, Professor Barberio will be responsible for the Centre’s overall strategic direction and operations, with advice from the relevant Centre committees.

Nicole Bell

Professor Nicole Bell is an international leader in particle and astroparticle physics. She has broad expertise in dark matter phenomenology spanning direct detection, indirect detection, collider searches, astroparticle physics and cosmology.

Gianfranco Bertone

Professor Gianfranco Bertone (Uni of Amsterdam) is an internationally renowned theoretical physicist working at the interface between particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology.

People, TheoryJosh Cohen27 December 2020International, Partner Investigations, Theory Research Theme

Céline Bœhm

Astroparticle physicist, Professor Céline Bœhm has worked in the UK, France, and Switzerland before her appointment in 2018 as the (second female) Head of School of Physics, University of Sydney.