{"id":4827,"date":"2022-08-01T09:06:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T13:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/wesley-c-gillis\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T16:08:22","slug":"wesley-c-gillis","status":"publish","type":"faculty-profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/wesley-c-gillis\/","title":{"rendered":"Wesley C. Gillis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ph.D. (Nuclear Engineering)<\/strong>, Georgia Institute of Technology<\/p>\n<p><strong>M.S. (Nuclear Engineering)<\/strong>, Georgia Institute of Technology<\/p>\n<p><strong>B.S. (Nuclear and Radiological Engineering)<\/strong>, Georgia Institute of Technology<\/p>\n<p>My research focuses on neutrinos, radiation detection, photosensors, nuclear signatures, international safeguards, and applications of deep learning. As a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/nexo.llnl.gov\/\">nEXO collaboration<\/a>, I contribute to the research and development of a next-generation underground experiment designed to explore the fundamental nature of the neutrino. In my lab, we study the detection mechanisms, hardware design, and data analysis of vacuum ultraviolet light signals in liquid xenon to pursue one of the most significant unanswered questions in physics today: <em data-start=\"665\" data-end=\"704\">Is the neutrino its own antiparticle?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1539,"featured_media":7869,"template":"","class_list":["post-4827","faculty-profile","type-faculty-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/4827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/4827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7684,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/4827\/revisions\/7684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}