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Chiara P. SalemiPI: Chiara P. Salemi

Chiara Salemi grew up in North Carolina and went to UNC-Chapel Hill for undergrad.  She completed her Ph.D. at MIT where she built the first lumped-element search for axions, ABRACADABRA, which set world-leading limits on low-mass axion dark matter.  She then went to Stanford and SLAC National Lab as a Porat Postdoctoral Fellow, where she continued working on lumped-element axion searches with the DMRadio experiments as well as joining the BREAD collaboration and doing the initial development of SQUAT sensors.  She started as an Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley and Faculty Scientist at LBNL in January 2025.  Outside of physics, she likes climbing mountains and cooking for large numbers of people.

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Postdocs

Dr. Emily Perry

Dr. Ryan Gibbons

Dr. Erin Engelhardt

Graduate students

Shreya Puranam

Penelope Quassolo

Celeste Virador

Drew Gibson

Alain Fauquex

Undergraduate students

Holden Kowitt

Rayana Yasin

Brennan Coffey

Tabitha Esposito

Anish Gupta (post-bacc)

Collaborators

The Salemi group operates at both UC Berkeley and LBNL, and we work closely with the van Bibber group in Nuclear Engineering, the theory group at UC Berkeley and LBNL, and the superconducting magnets group at LBNL.  We are a part of the Berkeley Axion Works.

Alumni

  • Tonya Peshel, 2025 (SLAC post-bacc)