During her PhD at CERN, Desiree contributed to an R&D work-package aiming at a thorough understanding of micro-channel cooling as a highly efficient thermal management technique for Silicon Pixel Detectors.
In particular she studied the flow of evaporative carbon dioxide in small channels and found that this cooling strategy exhibited so far undiscovered advantages for the detector cooling community. For her current position she is now working on R&D studies focusing on the optimized mechanical integration of this and other novel detector cooling strategies targeting at a large scale integration into any high energy physics detector layout.