Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber Prize 2019 recipient is Yale University doctoral student Brooke Russell.
Russell received an undergraduate degree in physics from Princeton University in 2011 and subsequently continued on at Princeton working with her senior thesis advisor Prof. Frank Calaprice on the Borexino experiment.
In 2014, Russell began doctoral research at Yale University under the supervision of Prof. Bonnie Fleming on the MicroBooNE experiment. She came to the Lab in fall of 2016 to work under the tutelage of Xin Qian through a DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award.
Since then she has been working with physicists in Brookhaven’s Electronics Detector Group on MicroBooNE physics analyses. Upon receipt of her doctorate, she will go to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to work on 3D pixelated charge readout devices to enable the single phase LArTPC DUNE Near Detector physics program as an Owen Chamberlain Postdoctoral Fellow.