Women in Research #LINO24: Saskia Plura
Lindau Alumna 2024 Saskia Plura from Germany is a Ph.D. student at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. She has two PhD projects: At DarkMESA, an upcoming beam dump experiment for Dark Matter searches at the MESA accelerator in Mainz, she develops a GEANT4 simulation to study the detector sensitivity and detection efficiency for different Dark Matter models and mass configurations to optimize their experiment. At BESIII, a collider experiment at the BEPCII accelerator in Beijing, she studies the decay of $J/\psi\to p \bar{p} e^+ e^-$ to set an upper limit on its branching ratio (originally, the goal was to measure the timelike proton form factor in the unphysical region through this process) and study the $X(1835)$ transition form factor.
Saskia participated in the 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. Learn more about her in her Women in Research article on our blog.