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Adriano Di Giovanni is a Research Scientist at Francesco Arneodo’s group and he has been with the Astro-particle Lab since its establishment in 2013. He is an active member of several international projects concerning the direct search of Dark Matter (XENON and DARWIN), Space science (Light-1 and Open Universe), Cultural Heritage (CHNet). He been working on particle physics detectors since 2003, when he started his master thesis at Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS) of Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN).

He left LNGS 10 years later, to join Prof. Francesco Arneodo at NYUAD in order to establish an advanced astro-particle laboratory, with the focus at developing detection techniques for astro-particle and applied physics. Adriano’s research output is mainly driven by his interest in developing particle detectors, their characterization and applications. He has carried out R&D programs based on gas detectors (Resistive Plate Chambers with Glass, single- and multi-gap, and Bakelite electrodes), Photosensors (PhotoMultiplier Tubes (PMTs), Silicon PhotoMultipliers (SiPMs) and Multi-Pixel Photon Counters) coupled to scintillating materials (Crystals, Plastics, Xenon Gas) and charge detectors (Silicon Drift Detectors(SDD)). He is an expert in the characterization of detector readout and signal processing thanks to the long-standing collaboration with Age Scientific srl.

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Gianmarco Bruno joined the Astroparticle Lab in November 2017 as a Research Associate. Dr. Gianmarco Bruno received his Ph.D. from the University of L'Aquila and a degree in Physics at the University of Torino. He has worked for several years in the "INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso" (Italy), which is nowadays the largest facility in the world for underground astroparticle physics. Gianmarco has been involved in various underground experiments studying rare processes, such as neutrino form gravitational core-collapse and dark matter. He is proudly member of the The XENON1T experiment, which is the most sensitive direct detection experiment for dark matter in the form of weakly interacting particles (WIMPs) with masses above 6 GeV/c^2 scattering off nuclei. His research currently focuses on both simulation of detectors for gamma spectroscopy and monitoring and controlling of a cryogenic facility based on a liquid nitrogen cooling system. 

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Currently working as a data scientist at ControlExpert GmbH in Langenfeld, Germany. 

Capstone Student > Research Assistant > Previous Lab Member

Henry is a capstone student who joined the lab in May 2020. He is working to complete his Bachelor's in Physics with a minor in Arabic Language in May 2021. His thesis project involves the development of X-Ray Spectroscopic instrumentation and the application of analytical techniques to cultural heritage.

Capstone Student > Research Assistant > Previous Lab Member

Panos is an undergraduate student at NYU Abu Dhabi, majoring in Physics and Math with a minor in Engineering. He joined the lab in the Fall of 2018, working on X-Ray Spectroscopy for cultural heritage, and now he is working on Dark Photon Detection through kinetic mixing in dielectrics. His capstone project focuses on the detection of minimum ionizing particles in Xenon, through their emitted phonons, using nanomechanical resonators. His general research interests include quantum information and error correction, gravity and theoretical applications of geometry in physics, but is always excited to look at something new!

Undergrad > Previous Lab Member

Created the RAAD and Light-1 3D models, and conducted stress analysis on them.

Research Assistant > Previous Lab Member

Rodrigo Torres is quite something alright. He's Awesome!

PhD Student

Alam is currently working on Super Resolution Microscopy developing a technique that would potentially add to the list of existing ones in this category of microscopes. He was involved in the calibration, data collection and analysis on haloscope  dark photon detection in Astroparticle lab as a part of a course. 

"BIOPHYSICS FOR LIFE!!"

Undergrad > Research Assistant > Previous Lab Member 

Work on the first iteration of Haloscope. 

Research Assistant > Previous Lab Member

Saarah is a research assistant who joined the lab in Nov 2020. She completed her bachelor in science in Physics and a minor in Philosophy from NYU Abu Dhabi. In her undergraduate career, she studied low mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) as part of her capstone project. She helped create an alert system to detect LMXB outbursts in its early stages. She is now working on X-ray detectors and its application on cultural heritage.

Senior Research Scientist

Currently working at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy.

Student > Previous Lab Member

She worked on the thermal vacuum tests with the Light-1 CubeSat Team.

Capstone Student 

Nour is a Capstone Student who joined the lab in 2019. He is working on completing his Bachelor's in Physics with a minor in Engineering with an expected graduation of May 2021. His capstone project involves data processing and filtering of environmental background radiation measurements and association with weather phenomenon, in addition to the design and development of a second iteration environmentally controlled field detector unit for neutron and gamma radiation.

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Undergrad

Worked on GEANT4 Simulations and on the XRF tests for Cultural Heritage purposes.

Valerio Conicella is an electronics engineer at Gran Sasso Tech Foundation (GST) and is involved in the design and implementation of set-ups for conducting electrical measurements on electronic components and devices. During his time at GST, he has strengthened skills in designing test set-ups for the characterization of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS), components for aerospace applications. Previously, he served as an Electronics Technician in the Astroparticle Physics laboratory, at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). He participated in, among others, the "3U CubeSat LIGHT-1 Space Mission," mainly dealing with the assembly and integration phases of the satellite system and playing a key role, especially in ensuring the proper operation and integrity of the CubeSat during the critical phases of the project