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Me: Livia Ludhova

I was born in 1973 in Bratislava, Slovakia. It was my father, Ludovit Ludha, a tenor in Slovak Philharmony chorus, who taught me to praise knowledge and curiosity. My mother, Marta Ludhova, a teacher of mathematics and physics, taught me how important it is to have a safe place to return to. Thanks to their love and trust, I learned to trust myself and love the world.

Foto: Mutnovka volcano, Kamchatka, Russia, September 2017

 
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My travels

I started to travel as a teenager, obsessed with year-round weekends with friends in the hills around Bratislava. Through many journeys with different people - who might have just crossed my life or became its pillars - I developed my dedication to individual travel. While with a beloved company the location tends to be irrelevant, a solo travel allows my soul to asborb the local flavours as a sponge.

Foto: Tripadvisor TravelMap

 
 

My profession and education

I am the head of a dynamic international research group in neutrino physics at the Nuclear Physics institute of the Jülich Research Center and a W2 Professor at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany.

  • PhD in Experimental Physics (2005)
    Département de Physique, Université de Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland;
    Thesis title: “The Muonic Hydrogen Lamb Shift Experiment: Lifetime and Population of the μp(2S) State”

  • M.A. in Physics (2001)
    Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia;
    Thesis title: “Production and study of exotic atoms at DAΦNE”

  • PhD in Geology (1998)
    Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia;
    Thesis title: “Reconstruction of Variscan P-T-t (pressure-temperature-time) path of metapelites in the crystalline complex of Western and High Tatra Mts., Western Carpathians, Slovakia”

  • M.A. in Geology (1996)
    Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia;
    Thesis title: “Metmorphic evolution of sillimanite-zone metapelites in the crystalline complex of Tatra Mts., Western Carpathians, Slovakia”

Fotocredit: Forschungszentrum Jülich /Ralf-Uwe Limbach

 
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My research

I work in neutrino physics with large-volume liquid-scintillator detectors as a member of the Borexino and JUNO experiments.

Neutrinos are unique elementary particles that challenge our understanding of the microworld. Thanks to their extremly low probabilty to interact with matter, they bring to us unperturbed information about othewise unreachable locations - including the interior of our Sun and our planet.

More about my research and my scientific publications you can find here.

Copyright: BOREXINO Collaboaration, collage of the Borexino detector with the NASA photographs of the Sun and the Earth

 

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