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Pysicist with expertise in cutting-edge R&D, computational data analysis, programming, and scientific writing

Profile Summary

Experimental Physicist and laboratory manager with 10+ years of R&D experience in Dark Matter- and Neutrino experiments. Member of internatinal collaborations for the last 10 years, helped to develop experiments searching for physics beyond the "Standard Model". Over the course of my career I developed expertise in: - Radiation detector technology and hardware development - Experimental design - Geant4 simulations, Comsol, Solidworks - Computational Data Analysis, data interpretation, and visualization - Programming - mostly in Python and Matlab - Scientific writing, reviewing, and consulting

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Data Analysis
• ★ Data Visualization
• ★ Applied Physics
• ☆ Nuclear Physics
• ☆ Computational Physics
• ☆ Mathematical Models
• ☆ Lasers & Photonics
• ☆ Technical & Scientific Writing
• ☆ Experimental Protocols
• ☆ Science Communication
• ☆ Scientific Proofreading & Editing
• ☆ Management

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing

Research Feasibility Study, Fact Checking, Gray Literature Search, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Algorithm Design-Non ML, Data Visualization

Work Experience

Senior Researcher

University of Massachusetts

November 2017 - Present

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Stony Brook University

November 2014 - October 2017

Postdoctoral Research Associate

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

August 2012 - October 2014

Education

Ph.D. - Physics

Univeristy of Zurich

January 2007 - January 2012

Dipl.-Phys./MSc (Physics)

RWTH Aachen University

November 2001 - October 2007

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

PREPRINT

(2020). Measurement of the Spectral Shape of the beta-decay of 137Xe to the Ground State of 137Cs in EXO-200 and Comparison with Theory . e-Print: arXiv:2002.00108.

(2019). Reflectance of Silicon Photomultipliers at Vacuum Ultraviolet Wavelengths . e-Print: arXiv:1912.01841.

(2019). Measurements of electron transport in liquid and gas Xenon using a laser-driven photocathode . Nucl. Instrum. Meth. (2020), 163-965.

(2019). Reflectivity and PDE of VUV4 Hamamatsu SiPMs in Liquid Xenon . 2020 JINST 15 P01019.

(2019). Measurement of the scintillation and ionization response of liquid xenon at MeV energies in the EXO-200 experiment . e-Print: arXiv:1908.04128.

(2019). Simulation of charge readout with segmented tiles in nEXO . 2019 JINST 14 P09020.

(2019). Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay with the Complete EXO-200 Dataset . Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 161802 (2019).

(2019). Imaging individual barium atoms in solid xenon for barium tagging in nEXO . Nature, volume 569, pages203–207(2019).

(2019). Characterization of the Hamamatsu VUV4 MPPCs for nEXO . Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A940 (2019) 371-379.

(2018). Study of Silicon Photomultiplier Performance in External Electric Fields . 2018 JINST 09 T09006.

(2018). VUV-sensitive Silicon Photomultipliers for Xenon Scintillation Light Detection in nEXO . IEEE Trans.Nucl.Sci. 65 (2018) no.11.

(2018). nEXO Pre-Conceptual Design Report . e-Print: arXiv:1805.11142v2.

(2018). Deep Neural Networks for Energy and Position Reconstruction in EXO-200 . 2018 JINST 13 P08023.

(2017). Search for nucleon decays with EXO-200 . Phys. Rev. D 97, 072007 (2018).

(2017). Characterization of an Ionization Readout Tile for nEXO . 2018 JINST 13 P01006.

(2017). Sensitivity and discovery potential of the proposed nEXO experiment to neutrinoless double beta decay . Phys. Rev. C 97, 065503 (2018).

(2017). Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay with the Upgraded EXO-200 Detector . Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 072701 (2018).

(2017). Searches for Double Beta Decay of $^{134}$Xe with EXO-200 . Phys. Rev. D 96, 092001 (2017).

(2017). Trace radioactive impurities in final construction materials for EXO-200 . Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A871 (2017) 169-179.

(2016). Measurement of the Drift Velocity and Transverse Diffusion of Electrons in Liquid Xenon with the EXO-200 Detector . Phys.Rev. C95 (2017) no.2, 025502.

(2016). An Optimal Energy Estimator to Reduce Correlated Noise for the EXO-200 Light Readout . JINST 11 P07015 (2016).

(2016). First Search for Lorentz and CPT Violation in Double Beta Decay with EXO-200 . Phys. Rev. D 93, 072001 (2016).

(2015). Cosmogenic Backgrounds to 0νββ in EXO-200 . JCAP 1604 (2016) no.04, 029.

(2015). Search for $2νββ$ decay of $^{136}$Xe to the 0$_1^+$ excited state of $^{136}$Ba with EXO-200 . Phys. Rev. C 93, 035501 (2016).

(2015). Production and Characterization of 228Th Calibration Sources with Low Neutron Emission for GERDA . JINST 10 (2015) no.12, P12005.

(2015). Measurements of the ion fraction and mobility of alpha and beta decay products in liquid xenon using EXO-200 . Phys. Rev. C 92, 045504 (2015).

(2015). Investigation of radioactivity-induced backgrounds in EXO-200 . Phys. Rev. C 92 015503 (2015).

(2014). An RF-only ion-funnel for extraction from high-pressure gases . Int. J. Mass Spec. 379 (2015).

(2014). Spectroscopy of Ba and Ba+ deposits in solid xenon for barium tagging in nEXO . JINST 10 (2015) no.12, P12005.

(2014). Search for Majoron-emitting modes of double-beta decay of $^{136}$Xe with EXO-200 . Phys. Rev. D 90, 092004 (2014).

(2014). An apparatus to manipulate and identify individual Ba ions from bulk liquid Xe . Rev.Sci.Instrum. 85 (2014) 095114.

(2014). Search for Majorana neutrinos with the first two years of EXO-200 data . Nature 510, 229-234 (12 June 2014).

(2013). Results on neutrinoless double beta decay of 76Ge from GERDA Phase I . Phys. Rev. Lett 111 (2013) 122503.

(2013). Pulse shape discrimination for GERDA Phase I data . Eur. Phys. J. C 73 (2013) 2583.

(2013). An improved measurement of the 2νββ half-life of Xe-136 with EXO-200 . Phys. Rev. C 89, 015502 (2014).

(2013). The background in the neutrinoless double beta decay experiment GERDA . Eur. Phys. J. C 74 (2014) 2764.

(2013). Isotopically modified Ge detectors for Gerda: from production to operation . JINST 8 (2013) P04018.

(2013). Monte Carlo Studies and Optimization for the Calibration System of the GERDA Experiment . JINST 729 P557564 (2013).

(2012). The GERDA experiment for the search of 0νββ decay in ^{76}Ge . Eur. Phys. J. C 73 (2013) 2330.

(2012). Measurement of the half-life of the two-neutrino double beta decay of Ge-76 with the Gerda experiment . J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 40 (2013) 035110.

(2012). Production and characterization of a custom-made 228Th source with reduced neutron source strength for the Borexino experiment . Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A680 (2012) 161-167.

(2012). Search for annual modulation in low-energy CDMS-II data . e-Print: arXiv: 1203.1309.

(2011). Combined Limits on WIMPs from the CDMS and EDELWEISS Experiments . Phys.Rev.D84:011102,2011.

(2010). Search for inelastic dark matter with the CDMS II experiment . Phys.Rev.D83 :112002,2011.

(2010). Results from a Low-Energy Analysis of the CDMS II Germanium Data . Phys.Rev.Lett.106:131302,2011.