Alumnus Florencia Canelli (PhD, 2003) Awarded 2009 Sloan Research Fellowship
Alumnus Florencia Canelli (PhD, 2003) has received a Sloan Research Fellowship for 2009. The Sloan two-year fellowships are awarded annually to 118 researchers based on their performance and "potential to make substantial contributions" to their fields. Thirty-eight Sloan Fellows have gone on to win Nobel Prizes.
Currently, Canelli is an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago, and she also has a joint appointment at Fermilab.
At 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳, she studied with Professor Tom Ferbel, and in 2004, she won the University Research Association Thesis Award for the best PhD Thesis at Fermilab. Her thesis, "Helicity of the W boson in single lepton p-pbar events," described a new method for extracting parameters from the decay of particles observed in the DZero experiment.