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Kate Scholberg
Position
Visiting Senior Scientist (from 2013/04/01 )
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Main Affiliation
Department of Physics, Duke University

Research Field
Experimental Physics (Neutrino Physics)
E-Mail
<kate.scholberg _at_ duke.edu> 
URL
https://scholars.duke.edu/person/schol
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Last Update 2023/02/20

Kate Scholberg is Arts and Sciences Professor of Physics and Bass Fellow at Duke University. Her broad research interests include experimental elementary particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology. Her main specific interests are mainly in neutrino physics. She received a B.Sc. in Physics from McGill University in 1989. She then attended Caltech, receiving an M.S. in 1991 and a Ph.D. in 1997 for thesis research on the MACRO experiment at Gran Sasso Laboratory in Italy. As a research associate at Boston University, she joined the Super-Kamiokande collaboration. She was Assistant Professor at MIT from 2000-2004 before moving to Duke University. She is currently a member of the Super-Kamiokande, T2K, and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment collaborations, and served as spokesperson of the COHERENT experiment at the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She coordinates the SuperNova Early Warning System, an international network of supernova neutrino detectors. She was elected as an APS Fellow in 2013 and was a recipient of the Breakthrough Prize in 2015 as a member of Super-Kamiokande and T2K.


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