Parno Group in October 2017

The Parno Group

Experimental neutrino physics at Carnegie Mellon University

PhD Students

  • Byron Daniel PhD student, Simulations and modeling for TRIMS
  • Rebecca Rapp PhD student, Neutrino flux and neutron backgrounds for COHERENT
  • Ana Paula Vizcaya Hernández PhD student, KATRIN ion-induced backgrounds and TRIMS
  • Alejandro Arteaga CMU undergrad working on detector studies for COHERENT
  • Aria Salyapongse CMU undergrad working on neutrino-flux simulations for COHERENT
  • Samuel Vasquez CMU undergrad working on neutrino-flux simulations for COHERENT
  • Aishwarya Vijai CMU undergrad working on plasma studies for KATRIN

Past Group Members

Past Visiting Group Members

  • Julian Blaschtschak (June - December 2020, part time), visiting master's student from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology who worked on plasma studies for KATRIN
  • Shuaixiang Zhang (Summer 2019), visiting undergrad from USTC who worked on neutrino-flux simulations for COHERENT
  • Florian Heizmann (June - September 2017), visiting PhD student from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology who worked on data blinding and relic neutrinos for KATRIN.
  • Woo-Jeong Baek (July - August 2017), visiting master's student from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology who worked on simulations for KATRIN and TRIMS.
  • Christine Claessens (June 2016), visiting graduate student from University of Mainz who worked on TRIMS at UW.