Kate Scholberg
Education and Training
McGill University, Montreal Physics B.Sc., First Class Honors, 1989
California Institute of Technology Physics M.S., 1991
California Institute of Technology Physics Ph.D., 1997
Boston University Physics Research Associate, 1996-2000
Research and Professional Experience
2018- Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of Physics and Bass Fellow, Duke University
2013-2018 Professor of Physics and Bass Fellow, Duke University
2012-2013 Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Physics, Duke University
2008-2012 Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Associate Professor of Physics, Duke University
2007-2008 Associate Professor of Physics, Duke University
2004-2007 Assistant Professor of Physics, Duke University
2000-2004 Assistant Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
2002-2004, holder of the Mitsui Career Development Chair at MIT
Selected Publications
D. Akimov et al. [COHERENT], “First Detection of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering on Argon,” [arXiv:2003.10630 [nucl-ex]].
M. Tanabashi et al. [Particle Data Group], “Review of Particle Physics,” Phys. Rev. D 98, no. 3, 030001 (2018).
B. Abi et al. [DUNE], “Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), Far Detector Technical Design Report, Volume II DUNE Physics,” [arXiv:2002.03005 [hep-ex]].
D. Akimov et al. [COHERENT Collaboration], “Observation of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering”, Science (2017) [arXiv:1708.01294].
A. Mirizzi et al., “Supernova Neutrinos: Production, Oscillations and Detection,” Riv. Nuovo Cim. 39, no. 1-2, 1 (2016) [arXiv:1508.00785 [astro-ph.HE]].
A. de Gouvˆea et al. [Snowmass Intensity Frontier Neutrino Working Group], “Neutrinos”, [arXiv:1310.4340 [hep-ex]].
K. Scholberg, “Supernova Neutrino Detection”, Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 62, 81 (2012) [arXiv:1205.6003 [astro-ph.IM]].
K. Scholberg, “Prospects for measuring coherent neutrino nucleus elastic scattering at a stoppedpion neutrino source,” Phys. Rev. D 73, 033005 (2006) [arXiv:hep-ex/0511042].
Y. Ashie et al. [Super-Kamiokande Collaboration], “A Measurement of atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters by Super-Kamiokande I,” Phys. Rev. D 71, 112005 (2005).
P. Antonioli et al. [SNEWS Collaboration], “SNEWS: The Supernova Early Warning System,” New. J. Phys. 6, 114 (2004) [arXiv:hep-ex/0406214].
Y. Fukuda et al. [Super-Kamiokande Collaboration], “Evidence for oscillation of atmospheric neutrinos,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1562 (1998).
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Selected Synergistic Activities
- Memberships: American Physical Society, American Astronomical Society, American Associa-tion for the Advancement of Science, American Association of Physics Teachers
- CERN Scientific Policy Committee, 2021-2024
- Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics, National Academies of Sciences, 2019-2022
- “Snowmass” Community Planning Neutrino Frontier Co-Convener, 2020-
- Associate Editor, European Physical Journal C, 2019-
- International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Neutrino Panel, 2019-
- JUNO Experiment International Advisory Committee, Chair, 2019-
- Annual Reviews of Nuclear and Particle Science, Editorial Board Member, 2018-
- Institute for Nuclear Theory National Advisory Committee, 2018-2020
- Fermilab Physics Advisory Committee, 2016-2019
- American Physical Society Division of Particles and Fields Executive Committee, Secretary/Treasurer2016-2018, Member-at-Large 2010-2012
- APS Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics National Organizing Committee, Chairline 2015-2018
- Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, 2013-2015
- Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5), 2013-2014
- High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, 2007-2010
- SNOLAB Experiment Advisory Committee, 2004-2008
Awards and Honors
- American Physical Society Outstanding Referee, 2019
- Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (as member of Super-K, T2K), 2016
- Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2013
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2004
- Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator Award, 2003
Collaborators and Other Affiliations
- Current collaborations: COHERENT collaboration, since 2014 (spokesperson 2014-2017, 2019-2021); DUNE collaboration (formerly LBNE), since 2009; HALO collaboration, since 2008; T2K collaboration, since 2004; coordinator of SNEWS (SuperNova Early Warning System), since 1998; Super-Kamiokande collaboration, since 1996
- Graduate and postdoctoral advisors: B. Barish and C. Peck (Caltech), E. Kearns, J. Stone, and L. Sulak (Boston U.)
- Graduate advisees: G. Carosi (LLNL), M. Swanson (Waldorf High School), R. Wendell (Kyoto), T. Wongjirad (Tufts), Z. Li (Yale), G. Sinev (SDSMT), J. Raybern, E. Conley (current), A. Major (current), B. Bodur (current)
- Postdoctoral advisees: J. Cooley (SMU), N. Tanimoto, M. Fechner, R. Wendell (Kyoto), J. Prendki, A. Himmel (FNAL), T. Akiri, E. O’Sullivan (Uppsala), M. Cervantes, D. Pershey(current)