Aditi Pradeep

Aditi is a postdoctoral researcher in the DMQIS group, where her work focuses on experimental searches for low-mass dark matter candidates and the development of next-generation sensor technologies to enhance detection capability. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering Physics from NIT Calicut, India, and earned her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of British Columbia, Canada, in 2024. Her doctoral research involved characterizing SuperCDMS SNOLAB detectors and developing advanced event reconstruction techniques.

At DMQIS, a central component of Aditi's research is the mitigation of the "Low Energy Excess" (LEE) background—a persistent and poorly understood background that currently limits sensitivity to sub-GeV dark matter in the keV–MeV mass range. To address this, Aditi is spearheading a comprehensive LEE mitigation program at SLAC. Her approach includes investigating innovative, in-house-developed sensor technologies, spanning phonon, charge, and qubit-based detectors to address LEE backgrounds, and improving position reconstruction in low-threshold detectors to identify background sources.

In addition to her R&D efforts, Aditi is a run coordinator for the SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment, steering commissioning activities. She also leads the first dark matter science from the experiment.