Prof. Dr. Dr. Livia Ludhova

Prof. Dr. Dr. Livia Ludhova
  • Focus of Research: Livia Ludhova is specialized in low-energy neutrino physics with large-volume liquid-scintillator detectors. She is a member of the Borexino collaboration since 2005 and currently serves in a role of its physics co-coordinator. She joined the JUNO collaboration in 2014 and is a member of its recently established Analysis Coordination Committee. Livia Ludhova has a long-term experience with the measurement of solar neutrinos and geoneutrinos.

Contact:
  • Phone: +49 2461 61 4280
  • E-mail: l.ludhova_AT_fz-juelich.de
  • Personal Travel and Photography Web: www.livialudhova.com

Education

  • PhD in Experimental Physics (2005)
    Département de Physique, Université de Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland;
    Thesis title: “The Muonic Hydrogen Lamb Shift Experiment: Lifetime and Population of the μp(2S) State”
  • M.A. in Physics (2001)
    Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia;
    Thesis title: “Production and study of exotic atoms at DAΦNE”
  • PhD in Geology (1998)
    Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia;
    Thesis title: “Reconstruction of Variscan P-T-t (pressure-temperature-time) path of metapelites in the crystalline complex of Western and High Tatra Mts., Western Carpathians, Slovakia”
  • M.A. in Geology (1996)
    Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia;
    Thesis title: “Metamorphic evolution of sillimanite-zone metapelites in the crystalline complex of Tatra Mts., Western Carpathians, Slovakia”

Positions

  • since November 2015
    W2 Professor at Physics Institute IIIB, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
    Head of the neutrino group at IKP-2, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany.
    Funded through the HGF recruitment initiative.
  • October 2005 – October 2015
    Postdoc and researcher at Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Milano, Italy
  • September 2001 – September 2005
    Doctorante Fonds National “B” e assistante diplome’, Dèpartement de Physique, Universitè de Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
  • October 1996 – August 1999
    Ph.D. scholarship – Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.

Awards and recognitions

Funding

  • April 2023 - March 2027
    DFG (German Physical Society) Research Group "Precision neutrino physics with JUNO".
  • October 2018 - March 2022
    DFG (German Physical Society) Research Group "Determination of the Neutrino Mass Hierarchy with the JUNO experiment".
  • since November 2015
    Recruitment initiative of the Helmholtz Association.

Teaching

Courses at RWTH Aachen

Current Responsibilities and Organisational Positions

Experiments

  • Physics (co-)coordinator of the Borexino experiment
  • Member of the Analysis Coordination Committee of the JUNO experiment
  • Member of the Steering Committee of the Borexino experiment
  • Member of the Institutional Board of the Borexino experiment
  • Member of the Institutional Board of the JUNO experiment

Conferences committees

  • Member of the International Advisory Committee of "Physics In Collision" (PIC) conferences
  • Member of the International Advisory Committee of "Symmetries in Subatomic Physics" (SSP 2022) conference
  • Member of the International Advisory Committee of "Neutrino Geoscience" conference series
  • Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the 7th "Symposium on Symmetries in Subatomic Physics" (SSP 2018), RWTH Aachen University, Germany, June 11-15th, 2018.
  • Convener of the “Neutrino Physics” parallel session at EPS Conference on High Energy Physics 2017, 5 -12 July 2017, Venice, Italy

Other committees

  • Member of the International Advisory Panel (IAP) for The European Spallation Source neutrino Super Beam plus (ESSnuSB+)
  • Member of the International Science Advisory Board (ISAB) for the project "Geohazards" lead by the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic) and financed by the Johannes Amos Comenius Programme (P JAC) and co-financed by the EU (2024-2028).

Summer Schools

Publications in peer reviewed journals (h-index, ORCID)

Summary and review articles:

Borexino:

JUNO:

Exotic Atoms

THEIA

LENA

Geology

Conference talks since 2017

Colloquia and seminars since 2017

  • Colloqium at the Ruder Bokovic Institute - May 6, 2024 - Zagreb, Croatia
    Reactor, solar, and geo neutrinos
  • Colloqium at the Center for Underground Physics at Institute of Basic Science (IBS) - August 9, 2023 - Daejeon, Korea
    Solar neutrinos from the CNO fusion cycle: Borexino discovery and implications for the solar physics
  • Astroparticle seminar at DESY - December 2, 2022 - Zeuthen, Germany
    Solar neutrinos from the Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen fusion cycle: Borexino discovery and implications for the Standard Solar Model
  • IOPB Online Colloquium - November 22, 2022 - Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India (online)
    Geoneutrinos - a new tool to study the Earth
  • Colloqium at Université de Paris and Institut Universitaire de France, Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie - October 20, 2022 - Paris, France
    Geoneutrinos (YouTube Link)
  • Seminar at King's College EPAP (Experimental Particle and Astroparticle Physics) group - June 13, 2022 - King's College, London, United Kingdom (online event)
    JUNO: the first multi-kton liquid scintillator based neutrino detector
  • ILL (Institute Max von Laue - Paul Langveln) College III Webinar - February 11, 2022 - ILL, Grenoble, France (online event)
    Updated geoneutrino measurement with Borexino
  • Colloquium at Physics Department, University of Houston - February 23, 2021 - Houston, United States
    Latest solar- and geo-neutrino results from the Borexino experiment
  • Seminar at McDonald Institute, Queen's University - February 16, 2021 - Kingston, Canada
    The new journey to the center of the Earth: goeneutrino measurement with Borexino
  • INPA Seminar, Berkley National Laboratory - October 30, 2020 - Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics (INPA), Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
    JUNO - the first multi-kton liquid scintillator detector
  • Università degli Studi di Ferrara - December 12, 2019 - Ferrara, Italy
    Solar neutrino spectroscopy with Borexino
  • DFG Research Unit JUNO Meeting - October 10, 2019 - Garching, Germany
    Geoneutrinos
  • Seminar at GSI - April 30, 2019 - Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI), Darmstadt, Germany
    Observation of Neutrinos from the Sun and the Earth in Borexino
  • Colloqium at Shanghai Jiao-Tong University - January 25, 2019 - Shanghai Jiao-Tong University (SJTU), Shanghai, China
    Low-energy neutrino physics with Borexino
  • Seminar at IIHE ULB-VUB - December 14, 2018 - Inter-University Institute for High Energies (IIHE), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium
    Low-energy neutrino physics with Borexino and JUNO
  • Seminar at INFN Bari - October 26, 2017 - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Bari, Italy
    Observation of Neutrinos from the Sun and the Earth in Borexino
  • Seminar at the Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics - June 28th, 2017 - Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Erlangen, Germany
    JUNO

Outreach

  • June 2022: Interview by Ken Croswell in Science News about the first estimation of the carbon and nitrogen content in the Sun using the improved CNO solar neutrino measurement by Borexino.
  • January 2022: Interview by the Slovak newspaper SME Zeny about Slovak Women.
  • December 2021: Representation of the Slovak Republic at EXPO 2021 in Dubai during the week "Knowledge and Learning". Article in the internal journal of the Comenius University.
  • July 2020: Neutrino-Physikerin mit einem Faible für Berge, interview with Weltmaschine.de
  • February 2020: Neutrinos geben Auskunf über den energiefluss aus dem Erdinneren, interview with Frankfurter Allgemeiner Zeitung about the latest Borexino geoneutrino measurement
  • October 24th, 2019: "Night pyramid", interview with RTVS Radio Slovakia
  • January 2019: "Sonnenteleskop", interview in "Effzett", journal of FzJ
  • August 2017: Interviews of the 18th Lomonosov Conference participants Interview starting at 1:38:29
  • October 2016: Interviewed by Leah Crane for the Symmetry magazine, A joint Fermilab/SLAC publication: Recruiting team geoneutrino.
  • June 5th, 2014: protagonist of the TV program Nautilus Scienza (RAI Educational) about the dark matter in the Italian TV RAI.