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Shayne Earle

Shayne is a Masters student at the University of Melbourne under the supervision of Professor Phillip Urquijo. His focus of research involves work on the Hyper-Kamiokande neutrino experiment.

PeopleJosh Cohen18 March 2025Domestic, student, Student

Daniel Avraham

Daniel Avraham is an MPhil student at the Australian National University (ANU) under the supervision of Professor Gregory Lane and Dr Lindsey Bignell. With a background in Statistics and Data Science, his research focuses on leveraging machine learning—particularly neural networks integrated with Gas TPC detectors—to predict particle directionality, paving the way for his transition to a PhD program.

PeopleJosh Cohen13 March 2025Domestic, student, Student

Leonie Einfalt

Leonie Einfalt is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Melbourne working on the SABRE experiment. In her PhD she worked on high level data analysis and statistical inference for the cryogenic, scintillator-based dark matter searches COSINUS and CRESST.

PeopleJosh Cohen13 March 2025Domestic, Postdocs

Scott Thompson

Scott Thompson is a Master of Science student at the University of Melbourne. He is studying theoretical particle physics under the supervision of Prof. Raymond Volkas

PeopleJosh Cohen11 March 2025Domestic, student

Michael Sun

Michael Sun is a physics student at the University of Melbourne (B.Sci/D-COMP), currently undertaking a vacation studentship working on data processing for SABRE South's direct detection experiment under the supervision of Professor Phillip Urquijo.

PeopleJosh Cohen11 March 2025Domestic, student

Yona Detaq

Yona is a MSc student at The University of Melbourne working under the supervision of Professor Elisabetta Barberio on the SABRE South Experiment.

PeopleJosh Cohen11 March 2025Domestic, student

Jackson Dun

Jackson Dun is a Master of Science student studying experimental particle physics at The University of Melbourne under the supervision of Phillip Urquijo, with interests in the Belle II experiment.

PeopleJosh Cohen11 March 2025Domestic, student

Ananthakrishnan Ravindran

Ananthu is a Joint PhD candidate at SUBATECH, Nantes, France and the University of Melbourne, Australia, as part of the AUFRANDE program.

PeopleJosh Cohen11 March 2025Domestic, student

Georgia Juler

Georgia is a MSc student at the University of Melbourne working on the SABRE South experiment under the supervision of Prof. Elisabetta Barberio.

PeopleJosh Cohen25 February 2025Domestic, student

Mannix Showell

Mannix Showell is a physics student at the University of Melbourne (B.Sci/D-MATHSC) working on simulation and data processing for direct detection of dark matter at SABRE South supervised by Professor Phillip Urquijo.

PeopleJosh Cohen29 January 2025Domestic, student

Mo Al Saidy

Mo is currently undertaking a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Physics, at Swinburne University. He holds an Honours degree in Mechanical Engineering from RMIT University and is a Summer Vacation Scholar at the University of Melbourne’s Dark Matter Centre node, where he is working on Dark Matter Detection under the supervision of Professors Phillip Urquijo and Elisabetta Barberio.

PeopleJosh Cohen17 December 2024Domestic, student

Subrahmanya Saicharan Pemmaraju

Sai is a PhD student at the University of Melbourne and is working under the supervision of Profs. Phillip Urquijo and Elisabetta Barberio. He is interested in the applications of Machine Learning to particle physics experiments and has previously worked on a search for Axion-Like Particles in B-meson decays with the LHCb collaboration as part of his Masters' degree at Monash University, and on track reconstruction algorithms with the CYGNUS-Oz collaboration at the ANU.

PeopleJosh Cohen11 December 2024Domestic, student

Eiasha Waheed

Dr Eiasha Waheed is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Melbourne working on Axion-like particle (ALP) measurements at the Belle II experiment. ALPs could provide a portal connecting SM particles to Dark Matter.

PeopleJosh Cohen9 December 2024Domestic, Postdocs

Ayse Kizilersu

Ayse Kizilersu’s PhD in theoretical physics on "Gauge Theory Constraints on the Fermion-Boson Vertex" was completed in the UK at the Centre for Particle Theory (CPT) in Durham University, which later became the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP).

PeopleJosh Cohen17 September 2024Domestic, Associate Investigators