Julia Gehrlein

Julia Gehrlein is an Assistant Professor in the Physics Department at Colorado State University. She has held research positions at CERN and Brookhaven National Laboratory, focusing on theoretical particle physics with particular emphasis on neutrinos and dark matter. Her work bridges astrophysical phenomena like supermassive black holes with ultralight dark matter and explores new physics scenarios through neutrino oscillations, non-standard interactions, and collider experiments.

• PhD: Instituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSIC, Madrid, Spain (Marie Curie ITN “Elusives”)
• MSc/BSc: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Her research spans neutrino mass mechanisms (inverse seesaw, sum rules), dark matter phenomenology (Z′ bosons, indirect signals), and experimental connections to long-baseline accelerators, reactor neutrino experiments, and the IceCube observatory. She contributes to the DUNE experiment design and analyzes neutrino polarizability effects.

Recent publications (2022-2025) focus on:

• Neutrino oscillation anomalies (gallium, ATOMKI X17)
• Neutrinoless double-beta decay theory
• Non-standard neutrino interactions in precision experiments
• Dark matter connections to neutrino physics
• Flavor models and symmetry-based mass matrices
• Collider signatures of new physics

She has worked extensively on theoretical frameworks testable at current experiments, particularly through neutrino factories and coherent scattering searches.