Michelle Dolinski
Department of Physics, Drexel University
Research Focus
Research Interests
About Michelle
I am interested in designing and building novel detectors for the next generation of neutrino experiments. Neutrinos, while difficult to study in the laboratory, may be the key to understanding what lies beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics. I am a member of the nEXO, DUNE, and PROSPECT collaborations.
The nEXO experiment will search for neutrinoless double beta decay of xenon-136. The observation of neutrinoless double beta decay would prove that neutrinos are a new kind of fundamental particle called a Majorana fermion. DUNE will search for CP violation in a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. The PROSPECT experiment searches for neutrino oscillations to invisible “sterile” neutrinos at the High Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Education
Postdoc
Physics, Stanford University, 10/2008 - 08/2012
Ph.D.
Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 12/2008
Master's
Physics, Harvard University, 06/2003
Bachelor's
Physics, Harvard University, 06/2003
