Rate My Professor Elise Novitski

Elise Novitski is an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Washington. She earned a B.S. in Physics from Yale University in 2008 and a Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University in 2018. During her Ph.D. at Harvard, she conducted research on Penning-trap-based antihydrogen experiments and measurements of the electron and positron magnetic dipole moments, testing quantum electrodynamics and CPT invariance. In 2018, she joined the University of Washington as the Robertson Postdoctoral Scholar at the Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics. She progressed to Research Assistant Professor in 2022 and assumed her current tenure-track Assistant Professor position in 2023.

Novitski investigates elementary particle properties and fundamental symmetries through precision low-energy experiments as part of the Project 8 and He6-CRES collaborations. Her work employs Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy to precisely measure the energies of electrons emitted in beta decay, facilitating direct neutrino mass measurements and tests of weak interaction symmetries. Key publications include "Tritium β spectrum measurement and neutrino mass limit from cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy" (Physical Review Letters, 2023), "First Observation of Cyclotron Radiation from MeV-Scale Electrons following Nuclear β Decay" (Physical Review Letters, 2023), "The Project 8 Neutrino Mass Experiment" (arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.07349, 2022), "Electron radiated power in cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy experiments" (Physical Review C, 2019), and "Adiabatic cooling of antiprotons" (Physical Review Letters, 2011). She received the 2023 Stuart Jay Freedman Award in Experimental Nuclear Physics from the APS Division of Nuclear Physics for developing and applying the CRES method to neutrino mass measurements and a 2024 DOE Early Career Award for precision CRES for direct neutrino mass measurements. Novitski serves as Member-At-Large for the American Physical Society's Topical Group on Precision Measurements and Fundamental Constants.