On April 5, 2023, former group member Jacopo Dalmasson successfully defended his doctoral thesis on nEXO and other instrumentation and technology for rare event physics. Jacopo worked in Prof. Giorgio Gratta’s group at the Stanford University, where he studies imaging scintillators and developed detector technology for nEXO, including arrays of SiPM detectors.
Jacopo came to our group in Summer 2014 as a full-time post-bac researcher with a Master’s degree from University of Milan, Bicocca and was at UMass until Fall 2015, when he moved to the SLAC-nEXO group under UMass affiliation. He started his PhD at Stanford in Fall 2016.
Jacopo led the first xenon liquefaction run at UMass, took the first SiPM data, and managed all laboratory activities, including mentoring students. In Amherst Jacopo also discovered the wonders of snow shoveling and cross country skiing during one of the coldest winters in the recent record.
Jacopo will continue on to a position as research scientist at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) in Trento, Italy. Congratulations!
