I am a postdoctoral research fellow of the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (UH) in Jelena Maricic’s group, working at CERN. My research focus is on direct dark matter detection and other rare event searches with dual-phase noble element time projection chambers (TPCs) in low-background environments. As member of the DarkSide-20k Collaboration and deputy WBS manager for the underground argon cryogenics system, I am involved in the design and construction effort towards the realisation of a next-generation detector with an active argon target mass of ~50 t. This precision instrument will be located at the underground Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) and probe the dark matter-nucleon cross-section close to the neutrino floor/fog. At this point of the phase space, coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus interactions become the dominating (irreducible) background.
My particular research interest is the physics of the response of noble liquids to low-energy interactions, internal calibration techniques, the cryogenics and gas handling aspects of dual-phase TPCs and photosensors for the detection of vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) light.
