Melanie Heil

Education and Experience

04/2014-today   Post-Doc,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, @CERN

07/2013-03/2014   Post-Doctoral Fellow,

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KSETA

07/2013   Doctorate of natural sciences (Dr. rer. nat) ,

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Department of Physics

07/2010   Diploma in Physics,

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Department of Physics

04/2007   Pre-Diploma in Physics,

Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Department of Physics

Research Interests

astroparticle physics, dark matter, detector instrumentation

Publications

• M. Heil, Measurement of cosmic rays with the AMS-02 detector on the International Space Station, EPS HEP 2013, to be published in Proceedings of Science
• M.Heil, K. Andeen et al., Operations and Alignment of the AMS-02 Transition Radiation Detector, ICRC 2013, to be published
• H. Gast et al., Identification of cosmic-ray positrons with the transition raditation detector of the AMS experiment on the International Space Station, ICRC 2013, to be published
• M. Heil, Measurement of the positron fraction in cosmic rays from 0.5 - 350 GeV with the AMS-02 detector on the International Space Station, PhD thesis, KIT Bibliothek (2013)
• The AMS Collaboration, First Result from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station: Precision Measurement of the Positron Fraction in Primary Cosmic Rays of 0.5 - 350 GeV, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 141102 (2013)

Conferences and Talks

• Measurement of cosmic rays with the AMS-02 detector on the ISS, EPS HEP 2013, Stockholm
• Measurement of the positron fraction, AMS Collaboration Meeting, CERN, 2013
• Positron ratio measurement with AMS-02, DPG spring meeting, Dresden, 2013
• TRD alignment and positron-proton separation using Missing Hits, AMS Collaboration meeting, CERN, 2012
• Search for Dark Matter with the AMS-02 detector on the ISS, DPG spring meeting, Goettingen, 2012
• Event selection for a lepton analysis, AMS Collaboration meeting, CERN, 2012
• Performance of AMS-02 on the International Space Station, DESY theory workshop, DESY, 2011
• TRD test beam performance, AMS Collaboration meeting, Kennedy Space Center, 2010