Kate Scholberg

Kate Scholberg is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Physics and Bass Fellow at Duke University.  She received a B.Sc. in Physics from McGill University in 1989.  She then attended Caltech, receiving an M.S. in 1991 and a Ph.D. in 1997 for thesis research on the MACRO experiment at Gran Sasso Laboratory in Italy.  As a research associate at Boston University, she joined the Super-Kamiokande collaboration. She was Assistant Professor at MIT from 2000-2004, spending some time working on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, before moving to Duke University. A recipient of the DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator and NSF CAREER awards, she is currently a member of the Super-Kamiokande, T2K, and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment collaborations. She is a co-founder of SNEWS, the Supernova Early Warning System, an international network of detectors sensitive to the burst of neutrinos from a core-collapse supernova.  She currently serves as spokesperson of the COHERENT collaboration. 

Scholberg was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2013.  She is currently serving as co-convener of the Neutrino Frontier of the US High Energy Physics Snowmass community planning process.  Her research interests are at the intersection of particle physics, nuclear physics and astrophysics, and include multiple aspects of neutrino physics, astrophysics and cosmology.