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2025 | Became a leading scientist at DESY, the German Centre for Astrophysics (DZA) and a professor in multi-messenger astrophysics at the University of Potsdam in Germany. |
2024 |
Axion
CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) reached the axion-photon coupling limit of 5.8 × 10^-11 GeV^-1 at 95% confidence level for axions with mass near 0.02 eV.
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2024 | Awarded the American Astronomical Society's High Energy Astrophysics Division mid-career prize. |
November 21 2024 |
Ground level enhancement
GLE #74 took place, representing the most recent observed Ground Level Enhancement event as of the current date.
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September 2024 |
Self-interacting dark matter
Another scientific study proposed that SIDM, along with fuzzy cold dark matter, could potentially resolve the 'final-parsec problem'.
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September 2024 |
Self-interacting dark matter
A follow-up study proposed that both SIDM and fuzzy cold dark matter might provide a solution to the 'final-parsec problem'.
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July 2024 |
Self-interacting dark matter
A scientific study was published proposing that self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) could solve the 'final-parsec problem' in astronomical research.
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April 1 2024 | Joined Columbia University as provost. |
2023 | Appointed as the 2024 Jacques Solvay Chair in Physics. |
2023 | EUSO-SPB2 was scheduled to fly from Wānaka, New Zealand, combining a more sensitive Fluorescence Telescope and a novel Cherenkov Telescope to search for up-going tau showers produced by astrophysical tau neutrinos. |
May 2023 |
Axion
ALPS II experiment began collecting data in May, continuing the search for axion detection.
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2022 |
Axion
The Event Horizon Telescope used polarized light measurements of Messier 87* to constrain the mass of axions, rejecting an approximate mass range by exploring hypothetical axion clouds around a black hole.
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2022 |
Axion
João G. Rosa and Thomas W. Kephart used data from M87* to constrain the mass of axions, exploring their potential role in explaining dark matter and fast radio bursts.
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July 2022 |
Axion
New observations from the upgraded XENONnT observatory discarded the previous excess, eliminating the possibility of a new particle discovery.
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2021 |
Axion
Researchers suggested that an excess of hard X-ray emission from a system of neutron stars known as the 'magnificent seven' could potentially be explained by axion emission.
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2021 |
Axion
The MIT experiment published results reporting no evidence of axions in the mass range from 4.1x10−10 to 8.27x10−9 eV.
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2021 | Received the Suffrage Award for Engineering and Physical Sciences, recognizing her outstanding scientific contributions, science communication, and support for women in STEM, as nominated by Prof. Amina Helmi from the University of Groningen. |
2021 |
CERN Axion Solar Telescope
First results from the RADES detector were published, reporting no significant axion signal detected above the noise background during the 2018-2021 period.
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2021 | Elected to the Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, acknowledging her scientific excellence. |
2021 | Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, highlighting her scholarly achievements. |
2021 | Elected to the National Academy of Sciences, recognizing her significant contributions to astroparticle physics. |
December 2021 |
Axion
ADMX excluded the range for the KSVZ axion model, advancing the search for dark matter axions.
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December 2021 |
Axion
ADMX excluded the axion range for the KSVZ model in its ongoing search for dark matter axions.
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2020 |
Axion
The XENON1T experiment at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy reported a potential discovery of solar axions, though the results were not statistically significant enough for definitive confirmation.
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2020 |
Axion
A proposal was put forward suggesting that the axion field might have influenced the early Universe's evolution by potentially creating an imbalance between matter and antimatter, which could help resolve the baryon asymmetry problem.
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2020 | Awarded the New Horizons in Physics Prize from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, jointly with Jo Dunkley and Kendrick Smith, for developing novel techniques to extract fundamental physics from astronomical data. |
2020 | A measurement of a unique MOND (Modified Newtonian Dynamics) effect was recorded, offering another alternative explanation to dark matter. |
October 2020 |
Light dark matter
SENSEI experiment published its most recent results on ruling out possible mass ranges of dark matter below 1 GeV using silicon detector and CCD technology.
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August 2020 |
Cosmic ray
Scientists reported that ionizing radiation from cosmic rays may significantly limit the coherence times of qubits in superconducting quantum computers if not adequately shielded.
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2019 |
Axion
A team at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids published their detection of an axion insulator phase in a Weyl semimetal material, demonstrating the existence of axion-like quasiparticles and validating axion electrodynamics.
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2019 | Founded and began chairing the Netherlands Astronomy Equity and Inclusion Committee. |
2019 | Announced as recipient of the 2020 New Horizons in Physics Prize from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, alongside Jo Dunkley and Kendrick Smith. |
2019 | Observations of Andromeda showed a lack of microlensing effects, suggesting tiny black holes do not exist in significant numbers. |
2019 |
Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray
Observation of ultra-high-energy gamma rays from the Crab Nebula, supporting the feasibility of electron acceleration to ultra-high energies in pulsar magnetospheres.
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August 22 2019 | Mini-EUSO ultraviolet telescope launched to the International Space Station, serving as a pathfinder mission for UHECR-missions in space. |
February 2019 |
Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass Experiment
ISS-CREAM was switched off due to unspecified project management challenges, ending its data collection mission prematurely before completing its planned three-year operational period.
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2018 |
Axion
ADMX completed its series of upgrades and began taking new data.
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2018 |
Axion
ADMX completed its upgrade series and began taking new data for axion detection.
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2018 | Joined the faculty at the Gravitational AstroParticle Physics Amsterdam (GRAPPA) Institute at the University of Amsterdam. |
2018 |
CERN Axion Solar Telescope
RADES (Relic Axion Dark Matter Exploratory Setup) began searching for axion-like dark matter, becoming the first detector to search for axions above 30 μeV.
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2018 | Became the first female dean of the Physical Sciences Division at the University of Chicago. |
2018 |
Cosmic ray
Observations of neutrinos and gamma rays from blazar TXS 0506+056 suggest that active galactic nuclei can also produce cosmic rays.
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2017 | Represented the Virgo Collaboration at the European Southern Observatory press conference announcing a merger of neutron stars. |
2017 |
CERN Axion Solar Telescope
CAST helioscope was converted from a solar telescope to a haloscope that looks at the galactic halo.
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2017 | Appointed as Albert A. Michelson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the College at the University of Chicago. |
2017 | Olinto began serving as principal investigator for POEMMA (Probe of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics), developing the conceptual design for a NASA space mission. |
2017 | EUSO-SPB1 mission launched from New Zealand, with a flight lasting 13 days (shorter than the planned 100 days). |
August 14 2017 |
Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass Experiment
ISS-CREAM was launched to the International Space Station during the CRS-12 mission, marking the next generation of CREAM balloon experiments. The instrument was designed to be permanently installed on the station at an altitude of 410 km to collect cosmic ray data.
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April 2017 | EUSO-SPB1 flew with a Fluorescence Telescope developed for JEM-EUSO, marking an important milestone in Olinto's space observatory research. |
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