Staff spotlight: Dr Linda Cremonesi

Dr Linda Cremonesi is a UK Future Leaders Lecturer in Particle Physics and neutrino expert with research interests spanning neutrino oscillations, neutrino interactions and neutrino astronomy.

A Queen Mary alumna, Dr Cremonesi gained her PhD in 2015, performing the first measurement of neutrino resonant pion production on water at the T2K experiment. She went on to complete her post-doc programme, which focussed on the ANITA experiment, making leading contributions to the integrtion and commissioning of ANITA-IV in Antarctica in 2016.

Dr Cremonesi went on to join the NOvA and DUNE neutrino oscillation experiments. On NOvA she co-convenes the Near Detector working group, overseeing the 15 neutrino interaction cross-section analyses currently in progress. On DUNE she led the integration and commissioning of the purity monitors for ProtoDUNE dual-phase.

In 2020, she was awarded a £1.5 million UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship and joined the Particle Physics Research Group at Queen Mary as a Fellow and Lecturer in Particle Physics.

Earlier this year, Dr Cremonesi was selected to be part of the Foundation for Science and Technology 'Future Leaders' programme. The Foundation brings together candidates in academia, industry and the government to debate policy issues that have a science, research, technlogy or innovation element.