Jenni Adams Explained

Jenni Adams
Birth Name:	Jennifer Anne Adams
Workplaces:	Uppsala UniversityUniversity of Canterbury
Alma Mater:	Oxford University
Thesis1 Title:	Cosmological phase transitions: techniques and phenomenology
Thesis1 Year:	1995
Doctoral Advisor:	Subir Kumar Sarkar
Doctoral Students:	Pauline Harris
Awards:	Dan Walls Medal (2021)

Jennifer Anne Adams (born 1970) is a New Zealand physicist who works on astroparticle physics and cosmology at the University of Canterbury. She was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and was the winner of the 2021 Dan Walls Medal. She is a full professor, and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2023. Adams is the lead New Zealand scientist in the international neutrino observatory at the South Pole, the IceCube collaboration.

Academic career

Adams was educated at Kaiapoi High School, where she first aspired to be an astronaut, before realising that actual discoveries about the universe were not made by astronauts. Adams completed an astronomy degree at the University of Canterbury and then was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1992.^[1] Her doctorate, completed in 1995 on the topic of cosmological phase transitions, was titled Cosmological phase transitions: techniques and phenomenology.^[2]

Following the completion of her PhD, Adams undertook postdoctoral research in cosmology at Uppsala University, where she also enjoyed the orienteering opportunities.

Adams was offered a lecturing position at the University of Canterbury, and started work there in 1998.^[3] She was promoted to a full professorship in 2020.

Adams is the lead New Zealand scientist in the international IceCube Neutrino Observatory.

Awards

Adams was President of the New Zealand Institute of Physics in 2008 when the Dan Walls Award was established. In 2021 she was awarded the medal herself.^[4]

In 2023 Adams was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.^[5]

Selected works

• Collaboration . IceCube . Aartsen . M. G. . Abbasi . R. . Abdou . Y. . Ackermann . Markus . Adams . Jenni . Aguilar . J. A. . Ahlers . Markus . Altmann . D. . Auffenberg . J. . Bai . X. . Baker . M. . Barwick . S. W. . Baum . V. . Bay . R. . 2013-11-01 . Evidence for high-energy extraterrestrial neutrinos at the IceCube detector . Science . English . 342 . 6161 . 1242856 . 10.1126/SCIENCE.1242856 . 24264993. 1311.5238 . 2013Sci...342E...1I . 27788533 .
• Abbasi . R. . Ackermann . Markus . Adams . Jenni . Ahlers . Markus . Ahrens . J. . Andeen . K. . Auffenberg . J. . Bai . X. . Baker . Mark David . Barwick . S. W. . Bay . R. . Alba . J. L. Bazo . Beattie . K. . Becka . T. . Becker . J. K. . 2009-04-01 . The IceCube data acquisition system: Signal capture, digitization, and timestamping . Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A . 601 . 3 . 294–316 . 10.1016/J.NIMA.2009.01.001. 0810.4930 . 2009NIMPA.601..294A .
• Aartsen . M. G. . Ackermann . Markus . Adams . Jenni . Aguilar . J. A. . Ahlers . Markus . Ahrens . M. . Altmann . D. . Anderson . T. . Arguelles . C. . Arlen . T. C. . Auffenberg . J. . Bai . X. . Barwick . S. W. . Baum . V. . Beatty . James . 2014-09-02 . Observation of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos in three years of IceCube data . Physical Review Letters . English . 113 . 10 . 101101 . 10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.113.101101 . 25238345. 1405.5303 . 2014PhRvL.113j1101A . 220469354 .
• Abbasi . R. . Abdou . Y. . Abu-Zayyad . T. . Ackermann . Markus . Adams . Jenni . Aguilar . J. A. . Ahlers . Markus . Altmann . D. . Andeen . K. . Auffenberg . J. . Bai . X. . Baker . Mark David . Barwick . S. W. . Bay . R. . Alba . J. L. Bazo . 2012-04-18 . An absence of neutrinos associated with cosmic-ray acceleration in γ-ray bursts . Nature . English . 484 . 7394 . 351–354 . 10.1038/NATURE11068 . 22517161. 205228690 . 1204.4219 .

External links

• Ted talk in Christchurch
• Talk at the University of Canterbury "Hunting the elusive neutrino"
• 2021 interview on Radio New Zealand with Jesse Mulligan

Notes and References

1. Web site: Barclay . Chris . 2021-08-16 . Unravelling the universe's mysteries: UC professor reaching beyond the stars . 2023-03-16 . Otago Daily Times Online News . en.
2. Web site: Adams . Jennifer Anne . 1995 . Cosmological phase transitions: techniques and phenomenology (Thesis DPhil) . 2023-03-17 . solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk . en.
3. Web site: Staff . IceCube collaborator becomes first woman to win physics award . 2023-03-16 . IceCube . 14 July 2021 . en-US.
4. Web site: NZIP Award Recipients – New Zealand Institute of Physics . 2023-03-16 . en-US.
5. Web site: Researchers and scholars at the top of their fields elected as Ngā Ahurei Fellows . 2023-03-16 . Royal Society Te Apārangi.