New Member

New member in the Gamma-ray Group

September 21, 2022

Gamma-ray Group

Monong Yu has just joined the Gamma-ray group at IFAE as a postdoc.

Monong obtained her Ph.D. at Pennsylvania State University in June 2022. She has experience in the ISS-CREAM and the HELIX cosmic rays experiments. She is interested in cosmic ray/gamma-ray detection, and machine learning-based approaches in high-energy physics, and will be working on HERD.

Welcome, Monong!

Latest Group News

Recognition

2026 Nobel Prize in Physics: the birth of high-energy neutrino astronomy

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Testing

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New publication

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Combined dark matter search towards dwarf spheroidal galaxies with Fermi-LAT, HAWC, H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS