Contact the Fermilab Saturday Morning Physics team.
Nathan Saffold, Co-Director
Dr. Saffold is a Lederman Fellow at Fermilab, whose work focuses on the use of Skipper CCDs to study dark matter. He currently works on the SENSEI experiment searching for dark matter-electron interactions in an underground laboratory, and the DarkNESS mission aiming to deploy skipper-CCDs on a CubeSat. Dr. Saffold received his BA in Astrophysics from Williams College in 2014, and his PhD in Physics from Columbia University in 2021. At Columbia, he worked under Prof. Charles Hailey on the General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) experiment, a balloon-based indirect dark matter detection experiment.
Dylan Temples, Co-Director
Dylan Temples joined Fermilab as a Lederman Fellow in 2021, where his research is centered upon developing quantum sensors for direct detection dark matter searches. Dylan splits his time between the MAGIS-100 atom interferometry experiment and efforts within the Quantum Science Center (qscience.org) to develop dark matter detectors leveraging superconducting devices including qubits and MKIDs. For MAGIS-100, Dylan focuses on developing simulation and analysis tools to extract faint dark matter signals.
In 2021, Dylan received his PhD from Northwestern University where he worked with Professor Eric Dahl on the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment. He received his B.S. in Astrophysics from Drexel University in 2015.
Bryan Ramson, Co-Director
Dr. Ramson is a postdoctoral researcher in the Fermilab Neutrino Division. He currently works as part of two large experimental collaborations at the cutting-edge of long-baseline neutrino physics: the currently operational Numi Off-axis Electron Neutrino Appearance experiment (NOvA), hosted by Fermilab, and the upcoming Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), also hosted by Fermilab. Howard University is his Alma-Mater and he earned his doctorate in Applied Physics on studies of nuclear anti-matter at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Much of his graduate work took place as a visiting scholar on the Argonne/Fermilab particle physics experiment, E906/SeaQuest. Before going to the University of Michigan, he was a visiting scholar at the National Aeronautic and Space Administration from Howard University, primarily involved in the measurement of cloud properties in the vicinity of Washington, D.C. and the validation of a globally distributed robotic aerosol and cloud measuring system.
His current research interests involve the study of neutrino-nuclei interactions and the testing of new light-sensing hardware to be included in DUNE. When he is not thinking about quarks and leptons, he enjoys reading, exercise, and video games.
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