McDonald Institute Internships
The McDonald Institute’s Cross-Disciplinary Internship (CDI) program offers students and young researchers unique opportunities to connect their unique and diverse research to astroparticle physics.
Previous Interns
Emily Darling (she/her)
BSc (Hons.) Candidate, Geology and Particle Astrophysics
linkedin.com/in/emily-darling/
emily.darling@queensu.ca |
Undergraduate student, Geological Sciences at Queen’s University
Cross-Disciplinary Project: Muon flux characterization in the DEAP-3600 water Cherenkov muon veto, Dr. Simon Viel (Carleton University)
Cross-Disciplinary Project: Muon flux characterization in the DEAP-3600 water Cherenkov muon veto, Dr. Simon Viel (Carleton University)
Lucas Fenaux (he/him)
BSc Candidate, Mathematics & Computer Science
linkedin.com/in/lucas-fenaux-50404910a/
lucas.fenaux@mail.utoronto.ca |
Undergraduate student, Computer Science at the University of Toronto
Cross-Disciplinary Project: Applying Machine Learning to Event Reconstruction for the SuperCDMS SNOLAB Experiment, Dr. Miriam Diamond (University of Toronto)
Georges Kanaan (he/him)
BSc Candidate, Computer & Cognitive Science
georges.kanaan@mail.utoronto.ca |
Undergraduate student, Computer Science at the University of Toronto
Cross-Disciplinary Project: Applying Machine Learning to Event Reconstruction for the SuperCDMS SNOLAB Experiment, Dr. Miriam Diamond (University of Toronto)
Sidney Leggett, Wápiskisiw Pinésiw Iskwéw (she/her)
BSc Candidate, Statistics & Data Science
linkedin.com/in/sidney-leggett-3139991b4
sidneyleggs@gmail.com |
Undergraduate Student, Computer Science specialization in Health Informatics at The University of Winnipeg
Cross-Disciplinary Project: Development of novel isotopic techniques in neutrinoless double beta decay and low-background in support of Astroparticle physics, Dr. Matthew Leybourne (Queen’s University)
Kaelan Renault (he/him)
MSc Candidate, Computational Sciences
linkedin.com/in/kaelan-renault/
krenault@laurentian.ca |
Master’s student in Computational Sciences at Laurentian University
Cross-Disciplinary Project: Modelling of the Neutron Detector Characterization Facility for Supernova Physics, Dr. Clarence Virtue (Laurentian University)