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!

Ben Schmidt

Ben Schmidt
Research Scientist

Ben worked on the CUORE and CUPID experiments before coming to Northwestern, where he is involved in all our projects. He will be beginning a new position as staff scientist at CEA Saclay in France in January!

Dan Jardin

Dan Jardin
Postdoctoral Researcher

Dan worked on SuperCDMS before coming to work on the Micro-X experiment at Northwestern.

Valentina Novati

Valentina Novati
Postdoctoral Researcher

Valentina worked on SuperCDMS at PNNL before joining us to continue her dark matter work and start working on coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering.

Runze "Tom" Ren

Renee Manzagol
Graduate Student

Tom is a graduate student working on SuperCDMS and will work on calibrating SuperCDMS Detectors and looking for MeV-GeV dark matter.

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.

Lidabel Ovalle Mateo

Lidabel Ovalle Mateo
Graduate Student

Lidabel a graduate student working on Ricochet fabrication and testing.

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 new graduate student!

Alejandro Rodriguez

Alejandro Rodriguez
Graduate Student

Alejandro is a new graduate student!

Sherry Wang

Sherry Wang
Undergraduate Student

Sherry is an undergrad working in our group.

Maria Fernandez Davila Pastor

Maria Fernandez
Undergraduate Student

Maria is an undergrad working in our group.

Renée Manzagol-Harwood

Renee Manzagol
Graduate Student

Renée was a graduate student working on Micro-X and is now an Advanced Projects Mission Systems Engineer at Millennium Space Systems.

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 a scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab.

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 postdoc with John Kovac at Harvard working on the CMB.

Doug Pinckney

Doug Pinckney
Undergraduate Student

Doug did his senior undergraduate thesis with us and is now a grad student with Scott Hertel at Amherst.

Meredith Danowski

Meredith Danowski
Postdoctoral Researcher

An expert rocketeer, Meredith worked on Micro-X and is now working as a Program Manager and Research Scientist at Michigan Aerospace Corporation.

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 Lederman Fellow at Fermilab working on SPT-Pol and other CMB experiments.

Alexander Leder

Alexander Leder
Graduate Student

Alex worked on SuperCDMS and is now working on the CUORE experiment with Lindley Winslow at MIT.

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 private industry in Seattle.

John Rutherford

John Rutherford
Graduate Student

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

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.