Rate My Professor Carsten B. Krauss

Carsten B. Krauss is a Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, a position he has held since 2024, following promotions from Associate Professor (2012–2024) and Assistant Professor (2007–2012). He completed his undergraduate studies and Diploma at RWTH Aachen University in Germany from 1990 to 1998, and obtained his PhD from the University of Heidelberg in 2002. His postdoctoral research was conducted at the University of Heidelberg (2002–2003) and Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario (2003–2007). Additionally, he served as a visiting scientist at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Ontario, from 2015 to 2016.

Krauss is an experimental physicist whose research focuses on neutrino physics and direct searches for dark matter particles. He leads efforts in the PICO collaboration, utilizing bubble chambers filled with superheated C3F8 to detect weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), with notable results published in Physical Review Letters and Physical Review D. His group is also developing the P-ONE underwater neutrino telescope off the coast of British Columbia. Previously involved in the SNO and SNO+ experiments, he contributed to measurements of solar neutrino fluxes, cosmogenic neutron production, and searches for nucleon decay and neutron-antineutron oscillations. Among his highly influential publications are "Combined analysis of all three phases of solar neutrino data from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory" (Physical Review C, 2013); "Dark matter search results from the PICO-60 C3F8 bubble chamber" (Physical Review D, 2019); and "Dark matter search results from the PICO-60 bubble chamber" (Physical Review D, 2016). As Director of the Centre for Particle Physics at the University of Alberta, Krauss supervises graduate and undergraduate research, including thesis projects on detector components for PICO-500 and P-ONE.