February 4, 2026

Rebeca Toro successfully defends her PhD thesis!

By njh@slac.stanf…

Rebeca and committee — Rebeca pictured after her successful defense, along with her thesis committee.

PhD student Rebeca Toro defended her PhD thesis, "Transport Properties of Warm Dense Matter Probed by Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy" on February 4th, before her thesis committee of Prof. Mark Cappelli (Stanford), Prof. Debbie Senesky (Stanford), Prof. Mike Dunne (Stanford, Inertia), Prof. Ben Ofori-Okai (Stanford/SLAC) and Prof. Siegfried Glenzer (Stanford/SLAC).