Jadyn Anczarski

Jadyn Anczarski is a 4th year physics doctoral candidate and KIPAC fellowship recipient at Stanford University working under Noah Kurinsky, PhD. At SLAC National Laboratory, Jadyn tests and develops next generation low energy sensors for direct dark matter detection. He focuses on charge mediated interactions where a dark matter particle exchanges energy within the detector substrate and excites electrons into its conduction band. He worked with the SPLENDOR collaboration to develop a substrate independent 7 electron resolution amplifier to readout the excited charge on these semiconductors. His thesis work will focus on pushing this resolution lower by designing a second generation charge amplifier based on a Cooper-pair box (a first type of superconducting qubit). 

Before attending Stanford, Jadyn studied at Villanova University where he received the Curvey Scholarship and Fellowship. From Nov. ’23-Mar. ’24, Jadyn traveled the world on his Curvey Fellowship by visiting 17 countries across 6 continents (pictured here in Antarctica). He also completed a Masters in Education at Villanova to develop best pedagogical practices he can use as a professor. For his undergraduate research, he worked under Joseph Neilsen, PhD analyzing X-Ray observations of the supermassive black hole M87*. He and the entire Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration received the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Physics for the first image of a black hole.