Laetitia Canete

Biography

Dr Laetitia Canete joined Northeastern University London in September 2023. She started to teach Physics 1 laboratories and tutorials for mobility students. She was appointed Lecturer in Physics in January 2024.

She completed her PhD at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland in 2019 where she worked on Mass Measurements for Nuclear Astrophysics in the IGISOL group. She then held a Research Fellow Position in the experimental Nuclear Physics group at the University of Surrey, where she combined research on Gamma-ray spectroscopy and teaching tutorials for undergraduate Physics students in Atomic Physics, Astrophysics, Properties of Matter and Mathematics.

Qualifications

PhD in Physics, University of Jyväskylä, Finland (2019)
MSc (distinction) in Physics Subatomic and Astrophysics, Université Lyon 1, France (2014)
BSc in Physics, University Lyon 1, France (2012)

On-going:
MA in Art and Science, University of the Arts, London (2023-2025)

Research

Dr. Canete’s research focused on experimental nuclear physics for nuclear structure studies and nuclear astrophysics. She has been previously working on the calibration of the gravitational wave detector LIGO in USA. During her PhD, she performed mass measurements of exotic nuclei using the double Penning trap JYFLTRAP.

In the IGISOL group, she participated to the implementation of the Phase Imaging Ion-Cyclotron-Resonance (PI-ICR) technique and used this novel technique for the first time to measure masses around the N=40 subshell gap. At the University of Surrey, she worked on Gamma-ray spectroscopy in collaboration with international nuclear laboratory facilities such Argonne National Laboratory in USA and CERN in Switzerland.

Selected publications

Henderson, J., […], Canete L. et al., Deformation and Collectivity in Doubly Magic 208Pb, Physical Review Letters 134, 062502 (2025).

Canete, L., Giraud, S., Kankainen, A. et al., Long-sought isomer turns out to be the ground state of 76Cu, Physics Letters B 853, 138663 (2024).

Canete, L., Doherty, D.T., Lotay, G. et al., Confirmation of a new resonance in 26Si and contribution of classical novae to the galactic abundance of 26Al, Physical Review C 108, 035807 (2023).

Sarmiento, L. G., […], Canete, L. et al., Elucidating the nature of the proton radioactivity and branching ratio on the first proton emitter discovered 53mCo, Nature Communications, 14, 5961 (2023).

Canete, L., Lotay, G., Christian, G. et al., New constraints on the 25Al(p,g) reaction and its influence on the flux of cosmic gamma rays from classical nova explosions, Physical Review C 104, L022802 (2021).

Canete, L., Giraud, S., Kankainen, A. et al., Precision mass measurements of 67Fe and 69,70Co: Nuclear structure toward N=40 and impact on r-process reaction rates, Physical Review C 101, 041304(R) (2020).

Canete, L., Kankainen, A., Eronen, T. et al., High-precision mass measurements of 25Al and 30P at JYFLTRAP, The European Physical Journal A volume 52, 124 (2016).

Karki, S., […], Canete, L. et al., The Advanced LIGO photon calibrators, Review of Scientific Instruments 87, 114503 (2016).