12.10.2023PhD awarded to Gabriela Rodrigues Araujo

Congratulations to Dr. Gabriela R. Araujo who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis this October. During her thesis, Gabriela worked on the GERDA and on the LEGEND-200 experiments at LNGS, as well as on MONUMENT and PALEOCCENE.  In particular, Gabriela investigated the background in the GERDA phase II data and contributed to the development, construction, and characterization of the wavelength-shifting reflector of the liquid argon veto in LEGEND-200, leading to an enhancement in the light collection efficiency, and thus background suppression. Gabriela also contributed to hardware and data analysis of the ordinary muon capture experiment MONUMENT at PSI, and to the PALEOCCENE project, which explores color centers in large crystals as passive particle detectors, via light-sheet fluorescence microscopy.