Diane M Markoff

Diane M Markoff is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Physics at Duke University's Trinity College of Arts & Sciences. Her research focuses on neutrino physics, dark matter detection, and nuclear interactions through collaborations like COHERENT and KamLAND.

• University of Washington (Ph.D., 1998)
• University of California, Berkeley (M.S., 1986)

Her work examines coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS), sterile neutrino phenomenology, and low-energy antineutrino fluxes from astrophysical sources like gamma-ray bursts and supernovae. She develops scintillator detector technologies and analyzes parity-violating neutron spin rotation to probe nucleon-nucleon weak interactions.

Recent publications highlight CEvNS measurements with germanium and argon detectors, dark matter constraints via KamLAND-Zen, and cosmic-ray muon spallation background studies. Her experimental expertise spans neutrino oscillation parameters, neutron scattering experiments, and low-background detector systems.