Saskia Plura, a master’s student of Particle Physics at JGU, will receive a very special honor on June 30: At the 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, which will take place online this year, she will discuss dark matter with the four Nobel laureates in physics Reinhard Genzel, David J. Gross, Saul Perlmutter, and Rainer Weiss in the online panel “Dark & Black”. In particular, they will be discussing questions that are currently on the minds of particle physicists: Will there be a breakthrough in the search for dark matter in the foreseeable future? Could the latest results of the muon-2-g experiment at Fermilab provide instructions?

Saskia Plura has been studying for a master’s degree program in Physics at JGU since the 2019/20 winter semester and specializes in Particle Physics. She is writing her master’s thesis in Prof. Dr. Achim Denig’s work group at the Institute of Nuclear Physics, where her research unit [im Rahmen der Forschungsinitiative 2008-11] is in the field of dark matter. Recently, Saskia Plura was selected for a PhD Fellowship of the Mainz Physics Academy (MPA) of PRISMA+. In her doctoral dissertation, she will focus on the search for light dark matter at the new particle accelerator MESA.