Christina E Love

Professor Christina Love is a member of the IceCube Collaboration where she leads Name that Neutrino, a citizen science program that allows members of the general public to analyze IceCube patterns from astrophysical particles. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a detector buried in the Antarctic ice at the South Pole. She also leads the HERA Collaboration that studies cosmic rays with high-altitude ballooning. HERA is a multidisciplinary and international collaboration between high schools, community colleges, and large universities. Professor Love earned her PhD searching for dark matter with the DarkSide Collaboration. She completed her postdoctoral work at the Transportation Security Laboratory, working on explosives detection with X-ray scanners. In addition, Love has performed research at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy. She serves as the director and founder of Start Talking Science, a free annual event where STEM scholars present posters detailing their research to a general audience. Professor Love has taught over 20 distinct courses to almost every type of major, including physics, business, fashion design, engineering and biology – to name a few. Her courses range from 100-level introductory conceptual courses to 400-level year-long senior research courses. She is the recipient of the Drexel University Provost Award for Undergraduate Teaching Impact and the Drexel Graduate Student Association's Award for Outstanding Faculty Mentor. The magazine Diverse: Issues in Higher Education named Professor Love, along with 14 other honorees, in its Emerging Scholars of the Year issue published on January 9, 2025. This annual edition profiles top scholars throughout the country who are making their mark in the academy through teaching, research, and service.