Dr. Valentina Lozza as Dresden Fellow at the Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics
Dr. Valentina Lozza has been a Fellow at TU Dresden since October 1, 2021 - at the invitation of Prof. Kai Zuber from the Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics. Lozza works at the Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (LIP) in Lisbon in the field of astroparticle physics and is a member of the SNO+ collaboration. The SNO+ experiment is a neutrino detector located two kilometers below the Earth's surface in an active nickel mine near Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. With the experiment, researchers, including the group of TUD physicist Kai Zuber, are searching for extremely rare nuclear decay events that provide information about the properties of neutrinos and answer open questions in the field of neutrino physics. One focus is on detecting the so-called neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ),
which would support the theory that neutrinos are their own antiparticles.
At TU Dresden, Valentina Lozza will contribute to the analysis of SNO+ data and bring her expert knowledge on background reduction in sensitive measurements to teaching. She will also participate in meetings with young students to provide insights into her research, her daily work, and her career path as a physicist.
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