{"id":20556,"date":"2025-10-07T11:06:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de\/fb08-prisma\/?p=20556"},"modified":"2026-02-18T08:45:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:45:28","slug":"woran-forschen-sie-gerade-dr-joanna-sobczyk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prisma.uni-mainz.de\/en\/2025\/10\/07\/woran-forschen-sie-gerade-dr-joanna-sobczyk\/","title":{"rendered":"What is your current research topic? Dr. Joanna Sobczyk"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/jgu-base-heading>\n\n
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\u201cNeutrinos are my fascination \u2013 those ghostly particles that penetrate our Earth billions of times over, yet are very difficult to detect and understand. With new planned experiments \u2013 such as the DUNE experiment in the USA \u2013 scientists aim to investigate some fundamental neutrino properties more closely: for example, the phenomenon that the three types of neutrinos constantly transform into one another \u2013 in technical jargon, neutrino oscillation. For this, they need important information from theoretical calculations: And this is where I come in.\u201d <\/p>\n\n

I specifically address the question of how neutrinos interact with atomic nuclei. Here, so to speak, two research areas of PRISMA++<\/sup> converge: high-energy physics and nuclear physics. My goal is to calculate very precisely, from the ground up \u2013 starting from the fundamental theories we have \u2013 what happens when a neutrino hits an atomic nucleus. <\/p>\n\n

From this, we can develop models and simulate processes that, in turn, are indispensable for experimental co-workers in carrying out and interpreting their experiments. In Mainz, within Sonia Bacca’s group, I find ideal conditions for my theoretical research: The group is highly successful in predicting properties of the atomic nucleus that can be derived from the forces between its constituents \u2013 the nucleons \u2013 and their interactions. <\/p>\n\n

Specifically, I aim to calculate the interaction of neutrinos with atomic nuclei of the elements oxygen (16<\/sup>O) and argon (40<\/sup>Ar) \u2013 both of which will play an important role in future neutrino experiments. A fine example of the indispensable interplay between theory and experiment.\u201d <\/p>\n\n

Dr. Joanna Sobczyk has been a postdoctoral researcher in Mainz since January 2020. She was initially funded by the Ir\u00e8ne Joliot-Curie Program initiated by PRISMA+<\/sup> with a fellowship for transitional phases. She has since been awarded a Humboldt research scholarship and a Marie Curie Fellowship. <\/em><\/p>\n\n \n<\/jgu-base-buttonitem>\n\n<\/jgu-base-button>

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