Karsten Heeger

Karsten Heeger is a German–American physicist and Professor of Physics at Yale University, where he also serves as the director of Wright Laboratory. His work is primarily in the area of neutrino physics. Heeger is the principal investigator of the PROSPECT experiment, searching for sterile neutrinos, and a member of the CUORE collaboration, searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay.
As a graduate student, Heeger worked on the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, where his dissertation on a measurement of the 8B solar neutrino flux was awarded the 2003 Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics by the American Physical Society.