The Physics Department welcomes our new faculty, Karsten Heeger and Reina Maruyama.
Karsten Heeger has just been appointed Professor of Physics and Director of the Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory starting July 1, 2013. Karsten comes to Yale from the University of Wisconsin, where he was an an unprecedented double recipient of prestigious young investigator awards, from the Department of Energy, Office of Science, High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics. He is well known for his work on low-energy neutrinos, making key contributions to the Daya Bay reactor experiment and to CUORE, the European-led double beta decay experiment. Click here for Yale News Article.
Reina Maruyama has been appointed as an Assistant Professor of Physics starting July 1st. Reina also comes to Yale from the University of Wisconsin. Reina is part of the IceCube experiment, which searches for energetic astrophysical neutrinos using Antarctic ice as the interaction volume – her interest is in neutrinos from supernovae. She also started a new dark matter detection experiment, DM-Ice, of which she is the Principal Investigator, designed to understand the earlier results from the DAMA experiment. DM-Ice is currently operating in Antarctica. Professor Maruyama won an NSF Career Award in 2012.