Gazing at the stars as a child, Grace Lawrence had no idea that this fascination with the stars would lead her to pursue a career in astronomy and to walk in the footsteps of one of the world’s greatest physicists, Albert Einstein.
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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.
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Ferdos Dastgiri is a PhD student working on dark matter Direct Detection and Metrology in SABRE and CYGNUS.
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The concrete has been poured at the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL) in preparation for the construction of the building’s frame.
Read MoreDr 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.
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It is not just the big discoveries that drive Peter Cox in his research into the nature of dark matter, but also the small pieces of the puzzle he is helping to put in place along the way.
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STEM Women will be hosting their usual three 1-hour sessions, but this time participants will have the chance to meet and chat more informally.
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Physicist Ciaran O’Hare had his sights set on becoming a musician before astronomy captured his imagination.
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The Centre has found a site to store 12 tonnes of liquid scintillator fluid before it is transported to Stawell to be used in the SABRE experiment.
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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.
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STEM Women is holding a series of Café meetups during May.
The May series of STEM Women Café meetups on May 24, 25 and 27 will focus on the theme of mentoring, exploring ways STEM Women can support others and also be supported in the work of STEM Women.
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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.
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Art and science might seem to be odd bedfellows, but that is not the case for Australian National University graduate student Raghda Abdel Khaleq. Describing herself as an artistic physicist, Raghda combines her creativity with her scientific knowledge to produce science-inspired art.
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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.
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A ground-breaking ceremony was held within the excavated surrounds of the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory today, deep in the Stawell Gold Mine.
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84% of the Universe can't be seen or touched - but we know galaxies would fly apart without the mysterious and little-understood dark matter.
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The Centre celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on 11 February with a series of social media posts featuring remarkable women who study or work in the Dark Matter Centre.
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Professor Karl Jakobs (Uni of Freiburg) is an experimental particle physicist with a well-established career using detectors situated at particle colliders.
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Dr Federico Scutti (Swinburne University of Technology) and worked on Heavy Neutrino research with data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, experimental research for the SABRE dark matter experiment, coordinating the software architecture development and the characterisation of the muon system. He has also been involved in muon flux measurement at SUPL.
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