29.08.2022PhD awarded to Yanina Biondi

Congratulations to Dr. Yanina Biondi who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis at the end of August! During her thesis, Yanina worked on the DARWIN demonstrator (Xenoscope) in our laboratory at UZH and on physics studies with the DARWIN observatory. She was involved in designing, building and commissioning a large, full-scale vertical demonstrator for  DARWIN, in particular in the purity monitor, which was operated successufully in 2022 and in the design of the 2.6 m tall TPC. Yanina also had leading involvement in the sensitivity study of DARWIN to the neutrinoless double decay of 136-Xe and she carried out a study on DARWIN's sensitivity to solar axions via the axioelectric effect and inverse Primakoff scattering.