I received my PhD in Physics from Uppsala University, Sweden, in 2014. As a graduate student I was working on improvements of the Swedish Automatic Unit for Noble Gas Acquisition (SAUNA) system, which is a radioxenon detection system used to discover clandestine nuclear explosions. My project was centered around using surface coatings on plastic scintillators to avoid xenon diffusion into the detector material. Coated detectors developed by me are now being used in SAUNA systems worldwide within the verification regime of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).

I joined MGH/HMS and the Sabet Lab as a Research Fellow in 2015, and have since then been working mainly with development of high performance LYSO:Ce detectors for small animal PET. The goal of this project is to take advantage of the Laser Induced Optical Barriers (LIOB) technique to develop a detector that can provide both high transversal resolution as well as depth of interaction (DOI) information in a single-side readout configuration. I have mainly been responsible for light transport simulations for pattern optimization as well as laser processing of crystals. In addition to small animal PET I am also involved in all other active projects in the lab, including development of a Cardiac SPECT scanner, as well as exploring the use of LIOB for development of scintillator-based Photon Counting Detectors (PCD) for CT.