Congratulations, Dr Managlia!

Maria Vittoria Managlia successfully defended her PhD thesis titled “Beyond the Barrier: Transfer-Induced Fission with Radioactive Ion Beams at the ISOLDE Solenoidal Spectrometer” on the 10th of September. 

Maria Vittoria completed her PhD at Chalmers University of Technology, where she played a key role in the development of the novel (d,pf) reaction technique at ISS, opening up the experiment to studies towards the astrophysical r-process. As she explains:

Nuclear fission in neutron-rich, short-lived nuclei determines how heavy the elements forged in neutron star collisions, like gold and uranium, can ultimately become. Within my PhD, I worked on the development of a new experimental method to measure fission barriers of short-lived nuclei through (d,pf) reactions in inverse kinematics inside the ISS solenoid. Its first application, the ²³²U(d,pf) measurement, lays the groundwork for quantitative barrier measurements and for extending the technique towards the neutron-rich actinides relevant to the r-process.

The ISS collaboration thanks Dr Maria Vittoria for all of her hard work, dedication, and contributions to the experiment and collaboration.

Congratulations, Dr Managlia!