Niki Saoulidou (Fermilab)
Niki Saoulidou was born and raised in Athens, Greece. She graduated
from the Physics Department of the University of Athens in 1996. Her involvement with
neutrino physics began with her undergraduate diploma thesis with Professor G. Tzanakos, for the
Fermilab DONUT (Direct Observation of the NU-Tau) and COSMOS experiments.
Saoulidou came to Fermilab as an undergraduate in the summer of
1996 to participate in the the calibration of the
DONUT electromagnetic calorimeter. DONUT became her doctoral thesis experiment,
and during her PhD years she was involved in all aspects of the data
analysis: detector calibration, pattern
recognition and event reconstruction,
emulsion data analysis, and
neutrino event selection and classification using artificial
intelligence (neural network) techniques.
In 2000, DONUT announced the first direct observation of
the tau neutrino.
Dr. Saoulidou obtained her University of Athens PhD in 2003, and
joined the
Fermilab staff as a postdoctoral research associate on
the Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search experiment. MINOS sends
the world's most intense neutrino beam through 732 kilometers of Earth
to a distant detector at the Soudan Mine in northern Minnesota. After a
year's
work on the installation and commissioning of the MINOS near
detector, she is now analyzing data for both near and far detectors.
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