Biographical Sketch

Jocelyn Monroe is an experimental particle physicist, studying dark matter and neutrinos.   Jocelyn currently works on the DEAP-3600 and DarkSide-20k direct dark matter detection experiments, and on developing high resolution tracking detectors for dark matter and neutrino physics with the DMTPC and HPTPC projects.  Jocelyn’s research has been recognized with awards from the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University, the American Physical Society, and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

Jocelyn joined the Royal Holloway, University of London Physics Department in 2011, founding the Dark Matter & Neutrino research group within the Centre for Particle Physics.  From 2009 Jocelyn was an Assistant Professor in the MIT Physics Department.  From 2006-09 she was a Pappalardo Fellow in MIT's Laboratory for Nuclear Science.  Jocelyn earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2006, where her dissertation research was on the MiniBooNE neutrino oscillation experiment. From 1999-2000, she was an Engineering Physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, where her research was on muon beam cooling. Jocelyn earned her B.A. in Astrophysics from Columbia University in 1999. 

Jocelyn chairs the UK Science & Technology Facilities Council Particle Physics Experiment grants panel, and serves on the CERN SPS and PS Experiments Committee, which reviews a large group of experiments using some of the accelerator facilities at CERN.  Jocelyn is a memberof the US Long Baseline Neutrino Committee, which is the scientific advisory committee for the DUNE experiment.

Jocelyn is from Chicago, IL, USA, and now lives in London, UK with her husband and two daughters.