Current Members
Francesco Arneodo is the Principal Investigator for the Astroparticle Lab which was established in 2013 at New York University Abu Dhabi. Francesco is an experimental physicist with a focus on radiation detectors, applied in various domains: astrophysics, environment, and cultural heritage.
He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Rome — La Sapienza and his Master’s degree from the University of Torino, Italy. He started his career at the Gran Sasso Laboratory (Italy) with the EAS-TOP cosmic ray experiment. He also worked on neutrino physics with liquid argon detectors and currently on the search for Dark Matter in the framework of the XENON program.
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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.
Office Phone (UAE): +971 2 628 6702 │ CV: PDF Link │ Orcid.org
Osama Fawwaz joined the Astroparticle Lab as a Researcher in 2015. holds masters in Physics and works as a full-time instructor at NYUAD. As a member of Prof. Arneodo research group, he gets involved in various activities, mainly gamma spectroscopy of the environment and NORM samples, also characterizing detectors.
Office Phone (UAE): +971 2 628 4374 │ CV: PDF Link
Laura Manenti is a Postdoctoral Associate expert in noble liquid time projection chamber technology, expertise with world leading dark matter and neutrino experiments..
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Isaac is a PhD student who joined the lab in 2020. He received his Bachelors in Physics from Cornell University where he studied Monte Carlo simulations of reionization cosmology and atmospheric models for climate change, wind turbine optimization, and geoengineering. He is currently interested in dark matter, space exploration, and instrumentation.
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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.
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Mishra, Umang
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Roberts, Henry
Capstone Student
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.
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Former Members
Currently working as a data scientist at ControlExpert GmbH in Langenfeld, Germany.
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Currently working at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy.
Office Phone (UAE): +971 2 628 4262