Brunner Neutrino Lab Research Awards
2026
| Date | Name | Title of Award/Scholarship | Awarded for | Awarded by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-14 | Amelia Remnant | Travel to the Uni of Notre Dame to give a talk at the 'Flow and Tell' workshop | GREAT Travel Award | McGill Physics Department |
| 2026-08-18 | Justine Thebault-Weiser | Optimizing Light Ion Ablation, Transport, and Filtering for Use in the BeEST Experiment | Honorable Mention | TSI Undergraduate Summer Research Showcase |
| 2026-08-18 | Will Gray | Testing a Pulse-IV Multiplexer for Large SiPM Array Characterization | Honorable Mention | TSI Undergraduate Summer Research Showcase |
| 2026-08-14 | Regan Ross | Merit | Donald G. Hurst Fellowship | McGill Physics Department |
| 2026-08-14 | Alex Todd | Travel to Institute of Nuclear Theory, Seattle, WA for research | PGSS travel award | McGill Post-Graduate Students' Society |
| 2026-08-13 | Cameron Flaman | Building a Peltier-Cooled Cloud Chamber for Physics Outreach | CASST 4th Place | CASST |
| 2026-08-13 | Justine Thebault-Weiser | Optimizing Light Ion Ablation, Transport, and Filtering for Use in the BeEST Experiment | CASST 2nd place | CASST |
| 2026-08-12 | Simon Lavoie | Merit | Alexander McFee Memorial Fellowship - Declined | McGill Physics Department |
| 2026-08-12 | Amelia Remnant | Excellence in master s research, course work and outreach | McGill International Research Master's Award | McGill Physics Department |
| 2026-07-31 | Hussain Rasiwala | Development of an Ion Transport and Identification System for Barium Tagging in Liquid Xenon Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiments | Best poster presentation - 2nd place | Nuclear Structure 2026 |
| 2026-06-24 | Regan Ross | Talk about Xenon Recovery from Used Nuclear Fuel | CAP Congress DNP 1st place oral presentation | Canadian Association of Physicists |
| 2026-06-24 | Regan Ross | Talk about Xenon Recovery from Used Nuclear Fuel | CAP Congress Overall 3rd place oral presentation | Canadian Association of Physicists |
| 2026-06-19 | Riya Rai | Research in SiPM characterisation for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay | Neutrinoless Double Beta decay AI Summer School Travel Grant | University of California San Diego |
| 2026-05-22 | Hussain Rasiwala | The Key to a Background-Free 0vbb Search in Liquid Xenon: Ba-Tagging - Status and Prospects | Best poster presentation - 3rd place | XeSAT 2026 |
| 2026-05-14 | Regan Ross | Simulation Studies of the Sensitivity of XLZD to Neutrinoless Double Beta Deca | Graduate Student Exchange Award | McDonald Institute |
| 2026-05-03 | Ethan Coulthard | Operation and optimization of a multi reflection time of flight mass spectrometer | Globalink Research Award | Mitacs |
| 2026-04-22 | Samin Majidi | DORY: An Optical Module in the nEXO Outer Detector Monitoring & Calibration System | Graduate Fellowship | Canadian Institute of Nuclear Physics (CINP) |
| 2026-04-21 | Sandhya Rottoo | Masters scholarship | NSERC CGRS-M | NSERC |
| 2026-03-13 | Justine Thebault-Weiser | Summer Research | Undergraduate Research Scholarship | Canadian Institute of Nuclear Physics (CINP) |
| 2026-03-04 | Cameron Flaman | Merit | NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada |
| 2026-02-26 | Regan Ross | Simulation Studies of a Future Xenon Rare Event Search Experiment | Globalink Research Award | Mitacs |
| 2026-02-15 | Riya Rai | Vacuum UV Stability Measurements of SiPMs at Liquid Xenon Temperature | WNPPC 2026 Best Presentation (Third Place) | WNPPC |
| 2026-02-15 | Samin Majidi | DORY - An Optical Module in the nEXO Outer Detector Monitoring & Calibration System | WNPPC 2026 Best Presentation (Second Place) | WNPPC |
| 2026-01-19 | Alex Todd | Ab initio nuclear theory for neutrinoless double-beta decay | Travel award to the Winter Nuclear and Particle Physics Conference (WNPPC) | Canadian Institute of Nuclear Physics |
| 2026-01-14 | Samin Majidi | Community Leadership at the PhD Level | HQP Excellence Award | McDonald Institute |
2025
| Date | Name | Title of Award/Scholarship | Awarded for | Awarded by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-30 | Simon Lavoie | Graduate Studies Excellence | Graduate Excellence (GEA) Scholarship | McGill Physics Department |
| 2025-10-30 | Riya Rai | Graduate Studies Excellence | Graduate Excellence (GEA) Scholarship | McGill Physics Department |
| 2025-10-30 | Samin Majidi | Graduate Studies Excellence | Graduate Excellence (GEF) Scholarship | McGill Physics Department |
| 2025-08-15 | Ethan Coulthard | Hafnium Characterization for use in LoLX | Honourable mention | TSI Summer Showcase |
| 2025-08-13 | Ethan Coulthard | Hafnium Characterization for use in LoLX | CASST 1st place | CASST |
| 2025-06-12 | Samin Majidi | Watching the Watchers: Monitoring nEXO's Muon Veto System | Student Applied Physics and Instrumentation Division (First place) | CAP Congress |
| 2025-06-12 | Samin Majidi | Watching the Watchers: Monitoring nEXO's Muon Veto System | Student Overall Division (Second place) | CAP Congress |
| 2025-05-12 | Alfredo Sosa Moreno | Summer Research Internship | Globalink GRI Award | MITACS |
| 2025-05-02 | Ethan Coulthard | Summer Research Internship | USRA | NSERC |
2024
| Date | Name | Title of Award/Scholarship | Awarded for | Awarded by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-08-20 | Grace Champagne | Stepping Up Precision: Automated SiPM Characterization for nEXO Experiment | CASST 4th place | CASST |
| 2024-08-16 | Grace Champagne | Stepping Up Precision: Automated SiPM Characterization for nEXO Experiment | Honourable Mention | TSI Summer Undergraduate Research Showcase |
| 2024-07-09 | David Gallacher | Research | Alexander Mcfee Memorial Fellowship | McGill Faculty of Science |
| 2024-04-12 | Hussain Rasiwala | Award for Equity Leadership | Student Achievement Awards | McDonald Institute |
| 2024-04-02 | Soud | PhD Thesis / nEXO cosmogenics, OD, SN neutrinos | CAP PPD Thesis Prize | PPD / Canadian Association of Physicists |
| 2024-03-22 | Simon Lavoie | Feature Implementation and Testing in CHROMA | Outstanding Research and Oral Presentation (Second Place) | PhUnC at Western University |
| 2024-03-10 | Grace Champagne | Summer research | Science Undergraduate Research Award | McGill University |
2023
| Date | Name | Title of Award/Scholarship | Awarded for | Awarded by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-10-15 | Regan Ross | Academic Merit | Max Stern Recruitment Fellowship | McGill University Faculty of Science |
| 2023-07-17 | Samin Majidi | nEXO Muon Veto Calibration System | Kharusi Family International Science Fellowship | Faculty of Science, McGill University |
| 2023-06-30 | Hussain Rasiwala | Barium tagging | FRQNT doctoral training scholarships | Fonds de recherche du Qu bec |
| 2023-06-20 | Lisa Rudolph | A Xe-127 calibration source for liquid Xe experiments | Student Poster Prize (1st place) | CAP - Particle Physics Division |
| 2023-06-20 | Lisa Rudolph | A Xe-127 calibration source for liquid Xe experiments | Overall Student Poster Prize (2nd place) | CAP Congress |
| 2023-05-01 | Sandhya Rottoo | Summer Research award | BIPOC Science Undergraduate Research Award | McGill Department of Physics |
| 2023-05-01 | Sandhya Rottoo | Summer Research award | Science Undergraduate Research Award | McGill Faculty of Science |
| 2023-03-15 | Sarah Nowicki | research, leadership, mentorship | McDonald Institute Postdoctoral Scholar Award | McDonald Institute |
2022
| Date | Name | Title of Award/Scholarship | Awarded for | Awarded by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-09-29 | Kevin Murray | Poster in the top 7 | Excellent Poster Prize | Trapped Charged Particle Conference 2022 |
| 2022-09-16 | Hussain Rasiwala | Graduate program performance | Chalk-Rowles Fellowship | Faculty of Science, McGill University |
| 2022-08-19 | Michael Hetu | Construction of a Small Cloud Chamber | Outstanding Presentation Award | MSI Summer Undergraduate Research Showcase |
| 2022-08-16 | Michael Hetu | Getting Your Head in the Clouds: Construction of a Small Cloud Chamber | CASST Honorable Mention | CASST |
| 2022-08-16 | Laura Gonzalez Escudero | Waveform fitting algorithm for LoLX pulse data | Summer Student Talk Competition (3rd place) and CASST Grand Prize Award Winner | CASST |
| 2022-06-09 | Soud Al Kharusi | nEXO Outer Detector Chroma Simulations | Student Poster Prize (2nd place) | CAP - Particle Physics Division |
| 2022-06-09 | Soud Al Kharusi | nEXO Outer Detector Chroma Simulations | Overall Student Poster Prize (1st place) | CAP Congress |
2021
| Date | Name | Title of Award/Scholarship | Awarded for | Awarded by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-23 | Emma Klemets | Cherenkov Measurements with Chroma for nEXO s Muon Veto | CASST Grand Prize Award Winner | CASST: The Canadian Astro-Particle Physics Summer Student Talk Competition |
| 2021-08-13 | Soud Al Kharusi | The nEXO Experiment / Outer Detector | Student Talk Prize (1st place) | SNOLAB User's Meeting |
| 2021-05-01 | Joseph Torsiello | Characterization of a laser ablation ion source | Globalink award (undergrads) | MITACS |
2020
| Date | Name | Title of Award/Scholarship | Awarded for | Awarded by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-08-22 | Soud Al Kharusi | Outer Detector | Award for Student Achievement for contributions to Research | McDonald Institute |
| 2020-08-19 | Soud Al Kharusi | LoLX Experiment | Wolfe Fellowship | McGill Physics Dept |
2019
| Date | Name | Title of Award/Scholarship | Awarded for | Awarded by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-01 | Melissa Medina Peregrina | Graduate studies | Scholarship for studies abroad | CONACyT |
| 2019-09-01 | Hussain Rasiwala | Graduate studies | Graduate Scholarship | MITACS Globalink |
| 2019-08-23 | Emma Klemets | Supernova neutrino detection with nEXO s outer detector | 1st place | SNOLAB Summer Student Talk Competition |
| 2019-02-06 | Kevin Murray | Optimization of MRTOF at RIKEN | Globalink Research Award | MITACS |
2018
| Date | Name | Title of Award/Scholarship | Awarded for | Awarded by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-06 | Soud Al Kharusi | Supernova Detection with nEXO | Alexander McFee Award | McGill Physics Dept |
| 2018-09-01 | Melissa Medina Peregrina | IGLAS | Award for graduate students | McDonald Institute |
| 2018-08-21 | Soud Al Kharusi | Supernova Detection with nEXO | Globalink Award | MITACS |
| 2018-07-25 | Soud Al Kharusi | Supernova Detection with nEXO | Hydro-Quebec Fellowship | McGill Faculty of Science |
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