CV
2020 - now
University of California Berkeley (USA)
Assistant Project Scientist (prev. Postdoctoral Scholar)
- Characterization of water-based liquid scintillators properties and capabilities
- Neutrino application for non-proliferation goal with the Watchman collaboration (AIT/NEO project)
- Antineutrino detection in the Theia experiment
- R&D of target materials and detection techniques for future neutrino detectors
2016 - 2020
Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany)
Postdoctoral Researcher
- Discovery of neutrinos from carbon-nitrogen-oxygen (CNO) fusion cycle in the sun (Borexino experiment)
- Precision wideband spectroscopic measurement of pp-chain neutrinos (Borexino experiment)
- Sensitivity to core-collapse supernova detection in multi-detector network
- Sensitivity studies of sterile neutrinos in the SOX experiment
Education
2012-2016
Cotutelle PhD degree in Physics
University of Cologne (Germany) and Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgia)
Ph.D. thesis: “Measurement of nucleon-nucleon elastic scattering at small angles using the ANKE spectrometer”
2010-2012
Master of Science degree in Physics
Tbilisi State University (Georgia)
2006-2010
Bachelor of Science degree in Physics
Tbilisi State University (Georgia)
Invited Talks
2021
University of Mississippi (Oxford, USA)
“Reaching for the stars with CNO solar neutrinos and other adventures of novel neutrino detectors” - Colloquium - Host: Gavin Davies
2021
University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada)
“Reaching for the stars with CNO solar neutrinos and other adventures of novel neutrino detectors” - Colloquium
2021
University of Washington (Seattle, USA)
"Cracking the CNO solar neutrino challenge: present and future" - Seminar - Hosts: Clint Wiseman, Alvaro Chavarria
2021
Sydney consortium for Particle physics and cosmology (Sydney, Australia)
"Cracking the CNO solar neutrinos challenge and great expectations with novel neutrino detectors" - Seminar - Host: Ciaran A. J. O'Hare
2021
University of South Dakota (Vermillion, USA)
“Reaching for the stars with CNO solar neutrinos and other adventures of novel neutrino detectors” - Seminar - Host: Jing Liu
2021
King's College London (London, UK)
“Towards Theia: advanced optical neutrino detector” - Experimental Particle and Astroparticle Physics Seminar - Host: Jost Migenda
2021
New Directions in Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering NuSTEC workshop
“THEIA: An advanced optical neutrino detector”
2021
Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, USA)
“Reaching for the stars with CNO solar neutrinos and other adventures of novel neutrino detectors” - Colloquium - Host: Thomas Kutter
2021
University of Virginia (Charlottesville, USA)
“Reaching for the stars with CNO solar neutrinos” - HEP Seminar - Host: Craig Dukes
2021
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, USA)
“Reaching for the Sun: Neutrinos from CNO fusion cycle” - Seminar - Host: Mitch Allmond
2020
Fermilab (Batavia, USA)
“Reaching for the Sun: First Evidence of CNO Neutrinos" - Neutrino seminar series - Hosts: David Caratelli, Anne Norrick
2020
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Research Progress Meeting (Berkeley, USA)
“Solar Neutrinos with Borexino: First Evidence of CNO Fusion Cycle"
2020
The University of Sheffield (Sheffield, UK)
"Solar neutrinos with Borexino: First evidence of CNO fusion cycle" - Particle Physics and Particle Astrophysics Seminar - Host: Matthew Malek
2020
Conference on “Interplay between Particle and Astroparticle Physics” (Vienna, Austria)
(postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19 pandemic)
2020
DESY Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (Zeuthen, Germany)
"Dive into the deep Earth with neutrinos: Borexino latest results” - Astroparticle Seminar - Host: Anna Franckowiak
2020
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics (Berkeley, USA)
“Borexino. Sun. Earth. Neutrinos" - Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics Seminar - Host: Quentin Riffard, Björn Lehnert
2019
Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics (Moscow, Russia)
“Borexino: Latest Results and Future Opportunities“
2018
Columbia University (New York, USA)
“Everything you need to know about the Borexino new results” - Seminar - Host: Georgia Karagiorgi
2018
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, USA) - “Everything you need to know about the Borexino new results” - Seminar - Host: Alfredo Galindo-Uribarri
2018
Workshop on Core-collapse Supernova Neutrino Detection (Orsay, France)
"Core-Collapse Supernova signal detection with Borexino and friends"
Selected Publications
2021
MeV-scale performance of water-based and pure liquid scintillator detectors - B. J. Land, Z. Bagdasarian, J. Caravaca, M. Smiley, M. Yeh, and G. D. Orebi Gann - Phys. Rev. D 103, 052004
2020
THEIA: An advanced optical neutrino detector - THEIA collaboration- European Physics Journal C 80, 416
2020
Experimental evidence of neutrinos produced in the CNO fusion cycle in the Sun - Borexino collaboration - Nature 587, p 577
2020
Comprehensive geoneutrino analysis with Borexino - Borexino collaboration - Phys. Rev. D 101 p. 012009
2019
Simultaneous precision spectroscopy of pp, Be7, and pep solar neutrinos with Borexino PhaseII - Borexino collaboration - Physical Review D 100 p. 08200
2018
Comprehensive measurement of pp-chain solar neutrinos - Borexino collaboration - Nature 562, p 496
2018
Measurement of the analyzing powers in pd elastic and pn quasi-elastic scattering at small angles - ANKE collaboration - European Physics Journal A 54, p 225
2016
Measurement of the absolute differential cross section of proton-proton elastic scattering at small angles - ANKE collaboration - Physics Letters B 755, p 92
2014
Measurement of the analysing power in proton-proton elastic scattering at small angles - ANKE collaboration - Physics Letters B 739, p 152
Awards and Honors
2017
Poster Runner-up Prize at “Prospects in Neutrino Physics - NuPhys2017” (London, UK)
2017
Poster Prize at “Recent Developments in Neutrino Astrophysics” (L'Aquila, Italy)
2016
Selected to participate in the 66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
2015
Tbilisi State University Medal
2011
Estate Khmaladze Scholarship
2009
World Federation of Scientists Scholarship
Summer Schools
2013
Ferrara International School Nicolo Cabeo "Physics beyond the Standard Model: the Precision Frontier" (Ferrara, Italy)
2011
ISTC-CERN-JINR Summer School on High Energy Physics and Accelerator Physics CERN (Geneva, Switzerland)
2010
Hadron Physics Summer School in Bad Honnef
(Bad Honnef, Germany)
2009
DESY Summer Student Program
(Zeuthen, Germany)
Cherenkov Telescope Array group
Languages
Georgian
Bilingual
Russian
Bilingual/Native
English
Fluent
German
Advanced
Italian
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