Priyanka Kachru, who started in the group as de facto postdoc in March 2023, successfully defended her PhD dissertation at GSSI, L’Aquila, Italy with a thesis titled “Development of SiPM based photosensors for light detection in DarkSide-20k” on July 6. Priyanka worked with the DarkSide groups at LNGS and TRIUMF to develop SiPM devices optimized for use in liquid argon. Here expertise is now applied toward the characterization of similar sensors in liquid xenon for nEXO.
With her doctoral defense behind her, Priyanka is now officially a postdoc. Congratulations, Dr. Kachru!