Tetiana Kozynets

Postdoctoral Researcher

My name is Tetiana (“Tania”) and I am a postdoctoral researcher in the QuMAP group led by Juri Smirnov. I come from Kyiv, Ukraine and have travelled extensively around the world in the pursuit of fascinating science. I hold a PhD degree in particle physics from the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, where I focused on constraining the unitarity of the neutrino mixing matrix using the atmospheric neutrino oscillation data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. Within the QuMAP group, my research focuses on sub-GeV dark matter searches with the QUEST-DMC experiment. I am broadly interested in physics Beyond the Standard Model , development of advanced statistical methods and data analysis techniques, intersections between dark matter and neutrino physics, condensed matter physics, and novel detector technologies

Interests

• Modelling heat injection in the QUEST-DMC experiment due to dark matter-electron interactions;
• Devising optimal analysis strategies for the rich time series data in QUEST-DMC, both in a model-independent and a model-dependent fashion;
• Prediction of daily modulation signals in direct dark matter detection experiments;
• New material design for particle detection
• Upgrading numerical codes for dark matter propagation through the Earth.

Education

• PhD in Particle Physics - Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark