Dr Linda Cremonesi

Profile

Linda Cremonesi is a neutrino physics expert with research interests spanning neutrino oscillations, neutrino interactions and neutrino astronomy. She gained her PhD in 2015 at Queen Mary University of London, performing the first measurement of neutrino resonant pion production on water at the T2K experiment. She went on to do a post-doc at UCL, where she initially focussed on the ANITA experiment, making leading contributions to the integration and commissioning of ANITA-IV in Antarctica in 2016. In 2015 she also joined the NOvA and DUNE neutrino oscillation experiments. On NOvA she co-convenes the Near Detector working group, overseeing the 15 neutrino interaction cross-section analyses currently in progress. On DUNE she led the integration and commissioning of the purity monitors for ProtoDUNE dual-phase. In 2020, she was awarded a £1.5M UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship and joined the Particle Physics Research Centre as a Fellow. She is currently Reader in Particle Physics.

Research

Research Interests:

See Linda Cremonesi’s research profile pages including details of research interests, publications, and live grants.

Supervision

Below is a list of potential projects for PhD students. Other possibilities can also be discussed.

• Measuring neutrino oscillations with the NOvA and T2K experiments
• Measuring neutrinos interacting with two nucleons simultaneously at NOvA
• A high-pressure gas Argon time projection chamber to study neutrino interactions 

Public Engagement

Linda Cremonesi is deeply passionate about public engagement, and she takes every opportunity to deliver outreach activities to under-represented groups and the wider public, as recognised by her Institute of Physics High Energy Particle Physics Science in Society award. Since the start of her PhD she has organised and taken part in a variety of public engagement activities, including exhibitions for the Science Museum Lates, and the Royal Society Summer Exhibition. She is regularly invited to speak about her research and experience at public engagement events all over the UK and worldwide, including the Science Showoff, the Cheltenham Science Festival, the podcast Science Shambles, and the Wellcome Collection packed lunch series. In 2019 I became a member of the first DUNE Outreach Committee, aimed at improving general interest in particle physics, reaching potential new colleagues. In 2020 she also joined the SCREAM project at Queen Mary to bring Physics Research in School Environments.

Performance