Assistant Professor @WIPAC

University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States

IceCube Representative (one of three) @ Global Neutrino Network (GNN)

Physical Sciences Group Representative (one of three) @ US Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (US SCAR)

The origins and acceleration mechanisms of the highest-energy particles in the Universe remain among the most enduring mysteries in modern physics. Studies of cosmic rays helped establish particle physics; today, we use the Earth’s atmosphere, Antarctic ice, and ocean water as components of vast detectors to probe this frontier. Do the laws of the Standard Model hold at extreme energies? Could these particles originate from dark matter or other new physics?

During my PhD at the University of Leeds (United Kingdom) and the University of Wuppertal (Germany), I searched for ultra-high-energy photons using data from the Pierre Auger Observatory. I then joined Chiba University (Japan) as a postdoctoral researcher, working on the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.

I lead a research group at WIPAC working across high-energy neutrino astrophysics, including real-time multimessenger observations, Galactic plane searches, diffuse flux measurements, and searches for the highest-energy neutrinos. My group focuses on analysis development, including advanced simulation, reconstruction, and machine learning methods. I have also contributed to next-generation optical sensor development for IceCube-Gen2 and plan to extend this work in the future.

Within the IceCube Collaboration, I previously served as co-lead of the Diffuse/Atmospheric Working Group and continue to serve on the Realtime Oversight Committee. My research is supported by external and institutional funding, including NSF and university awards, and has been recognized by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Early Career Scientist Prize and the IceCube Impact Award for leading the ICEcuBE AR project.