Dr. Julieta Gruszko

Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Physics and Astronomy

Julieta prefers to think of herself as a “nuts and bolts physicist”– she loves the creative work of designing experiments and getting them to work. She’s particularly interested in leveraging our understanding of detector physics to improve experimental sensitivity, and in finding ways to use more of the information our experiments produce.

Julieta is originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York. She arrived at UNC-Chapel Hill in January 2020 after spending 2 years as a Pappalardo Fellow at MIT, working with Lindley Winslow and Joe Formaggio. She completed her PhD as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow in Jason Detwiler’s group at the University of Washington, where she studied neutrinoless double-beta decay with the  MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, and received her BS in physics and BA in mathematics from the University of Rochester. In her spare time, she enjoys climbing, cooking, and both playing and listening to music. She is an avid reader, podcast listener, and art-lover.