Baeza-Rubio wins best poster prize at NNN25 Conference
Dr. Stephen Sekula, conference organizer; Jackie Baeza-Rubio; and Dr. Jodi Cooley, the director of SNOLab. Image courtesy of Jackie Baeza-Rubio.
Wright Lab graduate student Jackie Baeza-Rubio was awarded the best poster prize at the 24th International Workshop on Next Generation Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Detectors (NNN25), held on October 1-3, 2025 in Sudbury, Ontario. Baeza-Rubio’s poster title was “Radioactive Loading for Sterile Neutrino Searches using Optomechanical Sensors”.
Wright Lab associate professor David Moore, who is Baeza-Rubio’s advisor, said “It is great to see Jackie’s work recognized by the best poster at NNN25. This both recognizes her excellent poster and really shows the community is excited by Jackie’s and the group’s work towards using tabletop scale experiments to study neutrinos.”
Baeza-Rubio said, “NNN25 was a phenomenal first conference experience as a Ph.D. student. It’s not every day that I have the opportunity to visit a world-class national lab and discuss my research with Nobel laureates!”
Dr. Art McDonald, Nobel Laureate, visits Jackie Baeza-Rubio’s poster.
She continued, “Since this conference was geared toward neutrino detectors, it was on the smaller side, which facilitated networking. Additionally, I had the unique opportunity to stand on top of SNO+, which is the next generation of SNO, the experiment that granted Art McDonald the Nobel prize for the discovery of neutrino oscillations. Touring SNOLab, as well as meeting Dr. McDonald, who visited and discussed my poster with me, were the highlight of this conference.”
Baeza-Rubio further explained she toured a variety of experiments, including SNO+ SuperCDMS, PICO, DEAP, SENSEI, and HALO.
Baeza-Rubio said, “I’m sure I will remember this conference for the rest of my career, and I returned to Wright lab reinvigorated and ready to make more progress in my research.”