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Brooke Russell is an experimental nuclear particle physicist whose research focuses on elucidating the landscape of Standard Model physics and beyond, particularly concerning massive neutrinos. She is engaged with the DUNE experiment, aiming to make high precision measurements of neutrino mixing that provide unique insights into fundamental neutrino properties. Her group emphasizes the mystery of the particle nature of dark matter, searching for low-mass dark matter particles using quasiparticle detectors at the underground Kamioka Cryolab. By leveraging quantum sensing device readout coupled with varying detector payloads, her team targets model-complementary dark matter searches in the GeV-scale region, an area largely eluding traditional weakly interacting massive particle detection limits. Brooke earned her A.B. in physics from Princeton University in 2011 and completed her Ph.D. in physics at Yale University in 2020. She was an Owen Chamberlain Postdoctoral Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley Lab from 2020 to 2023 and joined the MIT Physics faculty as an assistant professor in July 2025.
Lawrence Berkeley Lab • Berkeley, CA
Conducted research on neutrino properties and contributed to DUNE experiment.