The Figueroa Group along with some of our Fermilab Colleagues!

Figueroa group and colleagues

This was at our pig roast party to celebrate the successful launch of the Micro-X Rocket. The fabric above us is the actual parachute from the Micro-X rocket which brought it back safely to the surface after its jaunt 150 mile above.

Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano

Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano
Professor of Physics & Astronomy

Office: TECH F143
2145 Sheridan Rd
Evanston, IL 60208
(847) 467-3511
enectali@northwestern.edu

This picture was taken in 2002, shortly after I finished my PhD. Been doing this a while now! When I'm not doing this, I like playing drums; theres nothing like hitting stuff with sticks to let go of some stress!

Dan Baxter

Dan Baxter
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Dan is a Scientist at Fermilab and an Adjuct Assistant Professor at Northwestern where he collaborates with our group on our quantum sensing and computing effort.

Riccardo Gualtieri

Riccardo Gualtieri
Research Scientist

Riccardo worked on baloon and ground-based CMB experiments before coming to Northwestern, where he is involved in all our projects.

Nandita Raha

Nandita Raha
Research Scientist

Nandita worked in experimental particle physics before coming to Northwestern, where she is involved in all our projects.

Josh Fuhrman

Josh Fuhrman
Graduate Student

Josh is a graduate student working on Micro-X and will work on development of the payload for indirect dark matter detection.

Ran Chen

Ran Chen
Graduate Student

Ran is a graduate student working on SuperCDMS and Ricochet and will work on detector research and development for these experiments.

Kyle Tanner Kennard

Kyle Tanner Kennard
Graduate Student

Kyle is a graduate student working on SuperCDMS developing new detectors for low-mass dark matter searches.

Grace Bratrud

Grace Bratrud
Graduate Student

Grace is a graduate student working on Qubit Sensor development.

Alejandro Rodriguez

Alejandro Rodriguez
Graduate Student

Alejandro is a graduate student working on neutrino and dark matter physics.

Arianna Colon Cesani

Arianna Colon Cesani
Graduate Student

Arianna is a graduate student working on quantum computing.

Deeksha Sabhari

Deeksha Sabhari
Master's Student

Deeksha is a master's student developing detectors for neutrinoless double-beta decay.

Shilin Ray

Shilin Ray
Undergraduate Student

Shilin is doing his senior undergraduate thesis with us on Quantum Computing.

Dan Jardin

Dan Jardin
Postdoctoral Researcher

Dan worked with us on the Micro-X rocket and is now a scientist with NIST.

Valentina Novati

Valentina Novati
Postdoctoral Researcher

Valentina worked with us on SuperCDMS, Ricochet, and CUPID and is now a scientist at IN2P3 (CNRS) in Grenoble, France

Runze "Tom" Ren

Renee Manzagol
Graduate Student

Tom worked with us on SuperCDMS and is now a postdoc at the University of Toronto working on CMS.

Ben Schmidt

Ben Schmidt
Research Scientist

Ben worked with us on everything and is now a scientist at CEA Saclay in France.

Sherry Wang

Sherry Wang
Undergraduate Student

Sherry was an undergrad working in our group.

Maria Fernandez Davila Pastor

Maria Fernandez
Undergraduate Student

Maria was an undergrad working in our group.

Lidabel Ovalle Mateo

Lidabel Ovalle Mateo
Graduate Student

Lidabel was a graduate student working on Ricochet fabrication and testing.

Renée Manzagol-Harwood

Renee Manzagol
Graduate Student

Renée was a graduate student working on Micro-X and is now working in industry.

Ziqing Hong

Ziqing Hong
Postdoctoral Researcher

Ziqing worked with us on SuperCDMS and Ricochet, and is now faculty at U. of Toronto.

Yunru "Rose" Zheng

Rose Zheng
Undergrad

Rose worked on IMPACT and SuperCDMS hardware and analysis.

Antonia Hubbard

Antonia Hubbard
Postdoctoral Researcher

Antonia worked with us on Micro-X and is now working in industry.

Brian Nebolsky

Brian Nebolsky
Undergrad

Brian was an undergrad and did his honors thesis with our group on detector design and applications to SuperCDMS and Ricochet.

Noëmie Bastidon

Noemie Bastidon
Postdoctoral Researcher

Noëmie worked on the Micro-X experiment at Northwestern, and is now a scientist at the National Australian University

David Goldfinger

David Goldfinger
Graduate Student

David worked with us on Micro-X and and is now a scientist at MIT Lincoln Labs.

Doug Pinckney

Doug Pinckney
Undergraduate Student

Doug did his senior undergraduate thesis with us and is now a postdoc with Joe Formaggio at MIT.

Meredith Danowski

Meredith Danowski
Postdoctoral Researcher

An expert rocketeer, Meredith worked on Micro-X and is now working in industry.

Sarah Trowbridge Heine

Sarah Trowbridge
Grad Student and Postdoctoral Researcher

Sarah did her PhD and a postdoc in our group working on the Micro-X Payload. She is now a scientist at MIT working on neutrino physics with Joe Formaggio and X-ray polarimetry with Herman Marshall.

Adam Anderson

Adam Anderson
Graduate Student

Adam worked on SuperCDMS and is now a scientist at Fermilab working on SPT-Pol and other CMB experiments.

Alexander Leder

Alexander Leder
Graduate Student

Alex worked on SuperCDMS and is now a scientist at Loa Alamaos National Lab.

Scott Hertel

Scott Hertel
Graduate Student

Scott worked on SuperCDMS and is now a faculty member at UMASS Amherst.

Kevin McCarthy

Kevin McCarthy
Graduate Student

Kevin worked on SuperCDMS and is now working in industry.

John Rutherford

John Rutherford
Graduate Student

John worked on Micro-X and is now working in industry.

Julien Billard

Julien Billard
Postdoctoral Researcher

Julien worked on SuperCDMS and is now a scientist at CNRS in Lyon, France working on the EDELWEISS dark matter experiment and on neutrino physics applications.

Daniel Castro

Daniel Castro
Postdoctoral Researcher

Daniel worked on supernova remnants and their interactions with cosmic rays, as well as modeling Micro-X observations. He is now working at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Phil Oakley

Phil Oakley
Postdoctoral Researcher

Phil worked on Micro-X, and is now a systems engineer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.

Kosuke Sato

Kosuke Sato
Postdoctoral Researcher

Kosuke worked on Micro-X, and is now an assistant professor at the Tokyo University of Science in Japan.

Steve Leman

Steve Leman
Postdoctoral Researcher

Steve worked on both SuperCDMS and Micro-X, and is now a scientist at MIT Lincoln Labs.

Patrick Wikus

Patrick Wikus
Postdoctoral Researcher

Patrick worked on Micro-X as our star designer, and is now leading a group developing the world's strongest superconducting magnets at Bruker in Switzerland.