BIO

Karolina Wresilo is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, specializing in neutrino physics. Originally from Poland, she moved to the UK in 2011, earning a degree in physics from Lancaster University. She initially focused on Astrophysics during her undergraduate studies before transitioning to neutrino physics for her Master’s, inspired by its profound challenges and mysteries. Her PhD research focuses on the MicroBooNE and DUNE experiments at Fermilab, with an interest in neutrino-nucleus interactions and cutting-edge detector technologies to explore some of the Universe's most fundamental questions.

ABSTRACT

At the dawn of the universe, matter and antimatter were created in equal amounts. If nature had played fair, they should have annihilated each other completely, leaving nothing behind—but instead, matter prevailed, and we are here to tell the tale. The answer to the origin of this cosmic imbalance might be hidden in the behavior of subatomic particles called neutrinos, and DUNE, a future-generation experiment hosted at Fermilab, is designed to unravel this mystery. This talk will highlight the challenges of capturing neutrinos and show how insights from the MicroBooNE experiment are helping to pave the way toward solving one of the greatest puzzles of our universe.