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Congratulations to Melanie Phillips, an undergrad in the Engineering Physics program, who was one of two recipients of this year's !

Melanie Phillips on her summer research plans:

I will be working under Dr. Makoto Fujiwara, spending the first two months at TRIUMF with the ALPHA/HAICU group and the second two at CERN. This collaboration is exploring antimatter—specifically antihydrogen—to learn more about how antimatter behaves and its implications for the rules of fundamental physics. CERN is one of the only facilities in the world that routinely produces the antiprotons needed to create antihydrogen.

At TRIUMF I will be primarily working with HAICU, a new experiment based at TRIUMF designed to help learn more about hydrogen and antihydrogen. I will be primarily working on the hardware and design of instrumentation for that experiment.

At CERN I will be assisting with the ALPHA collaboration likely with some hardware as well, but the project is not yet fully defined. The beam runs 24/7 from May through December so the collaboration operates with shift work to ensure the experiment is always under observation.

I'm super excited to learn more about antimatter and explore two very interesting facilities and in my free time I'm also really looking forward to exploring Switzerland and some of the surrounding areas!

Melanie visiting SNOLAB in the summer of 2023 (fourth from right).

Melanie visiting the CSA headquarters.