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Kaeli Hughes

Kaeli Hughes — Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow — Postdoc
Office: N/A Davey Laboratory
Address: Dept. of Physics, 104 Davey Lab University Park, PA 16802 US
kaeli@psu.edu
+1 6142906343
Kaeli Hughes
Astronomy Physics ANITA ARA BEACON PUEO RNO-G Cosmic Rays Multimessenger Astrophysics Neutrinos CMA

I am a Presidential Postdoctoral fellow searching for ultra-high energy neutrinos with Prof. Stephanie Wissel. I am a collaborator on four active experiments: ARA, RNO-G, PUEO, and BEACON. My past work includes an analysis of data from the new phased array trigger installed with the ARA instrument, and my current work focuses on simulation and calibration work for RNO-G and PUEO. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2022.

ORCID: 0000-0002-4551-9581

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The IGC wordmark was created by Monica Rincon Ramirez while she was a graduate student at the Institute. Monica enjoys drawing new connections between fundamental theory and observations. Her graduate work included general relativity, loop quantum gravity, and quantum fields in cosmological backgrounds; her thesis focused on effective quantum corrections to gravitational phenomena from spinfoams and applications to cosmology. She received her PhD in 2024.

The wordmark symbolizes the scope of research at the IGC. The base represents quantum gravity, evoking the quantum geometrical picture from spinfoams and loop quantum gravity — approaches studied at the Center for Fundamental Theory. The middle shows galaxies embedded in a smooth surface characteristic of spacetime in general relativity and the larger physical scales studied at the Center for Theoretical and Observational Cosmology. The top curves to an extreme representing a supermassive black hole accompanied by an energetic jet, with a binary black hole pair nearby — the high-energy phenomena studied at the Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics.