Wright Lab congratulates our graduating students in the class of 2025, including:
Yale Physics Ph.D. Graduates
- Sophia Hollick, ‘25 (advisor Reina Maruyama), “COSINE-100 and ANAIS-112: Two Experiments, One Search for the Annual Modulation of Dark Matter”
- Arina Telles, ‘25 (advisor Karsten Heeger), “Microwave Techniques for Neutrino Mass Measurement”
- Sanah Bhimani, ‘24 (advisor Laura Newburgh), “From Site to First Light: OCS Deployment and Defining Detector Quality Metrics for the Simons Observatory SAT-MF1”
- Samantha Pagan, ‘24 (advisor Karsten Heeger), “Physics on the keV Energy Scale with CUORE: A Search for Solar Axions”
- Jingjing Pan, ‘24 (advisor Keith Baker), “Exploring the Standard Model and Beyond Through the Lens of Jet Substructure and Deep Learning with the ATLAS Experiment”
- Will Tyndall, ‘24 (advisor Laura Newburgh), “Drone Calibration Systems for 21 cm Cosmology Experiments”
Yale Physics Undergraduates
- Eli Bader*+ (advisor Laura Newburgh), “Battery Hot-Swap System for Drone Calibration of Radio Telescopes”
- Grace Burton+ (advisor Laura Havener), “HRPPD Test Station for pfRICH at ePIC”.
- Aaron Chizhik+ (advisor Karsten Heeger), “Light Detector Testing for CUPID Alpha Background Identification”
- Grant Fitez* (advisor Helen Caines), “Automation of LFHCal Tile Measurements” Winner, Howard L. Schultz Prize
- Henry Kaplan+ (advisor Laura Havener), “Characterization of HRPPD tiles for the pfRICH detector at ePIC” Winner, Howard L. Schultz Prize
- Jack Lloyd+ (advisor Keith Baker), “Quantum Entanglement in High Energy Physics”
We also congratulate the following graduating undergraduate students who have worked at Wright Lab as part of their academic journey: Wayne Ariston*+ (Physics-Intensive; Winner, Howard L. Schultz Prize), Jordan Davidson (Applied Physics & Humanities), Spencer Greenfield (Earth & Planetary Sciences), Forrest Hutchison (Mathematics & Physics), Ana Maria Melián (Astrophysics & Applied Physics), Selma Mazioud (Applied Mathematics), Alexa Murray (Physics), Quazi Rumman Rahman+ (Physics-Intensive), Coryell Smith (Astrophysics), and Din-Ammar Tolj (Mathematics-Intensive & Physics-Intensive).
*indicates distinction in the major
+ indicates induction into Sigma Pi Sigma