Samantha L. Pagan
Patent Agent I
Samantha Pagan, Ph.D., is a patent agent in 麻豆直播鈥檚 Intellectual Property Department and a member of the firm鈥檚 Electronic Practice. She completed a Ph.D. in experimental physics, specializing in nuclear and particle physics, and is based in the Boston office.
Before transitioning to the legal industry, Samantha was a graduate researcher and postdoctoral associate at Yale University鈥檚 Physics Department and a member of the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) and CUORE Upgrade with Particle Identification (CUPID) Collaborations, which are international research collaborations involving about 100 scientists. During this time, Samantha led data analyses and hardware research and development for studying dark matter and rare nuclear processes. She mentored undergraduate students on research and presented scientific findings to various audiences. Samantha also served on the Outreach Board for CUORE, working to communicate their science to broad audiences.
Presentations and Publications
- Co-author, 鈥淧erformance of a SiPM-based, plastic scintillator muon veto prototype for CUPID,鈥澛 arXiv preprint 2505.06129 (2025),
- Author, 鈥淧hysics at the keV Energy Scale with CUORE: A Search for Solar Axions,鈥 Yale University PhD Dissertation (2024)
- Co-author, 鈥淲ith or without 谓? Hunting for the seed of the matter-antimatter asymmetry鈥 arXiv preprint 2404.04453 (2024)
- Co-author, 鈥淪earch for Majorana neutrinos exploiting millikelvin cryogenics with CUORE鈥 Nature 604.7904 (2022), pp. 53鈥58. doi:
- Co-author, 鈥淯sing machine learning to select high-quality measurements,鈥 Journal of Instrumentation 16.08 (2021), T08010. doi:
- Author, 鈥淎 surface low energy characterization technique for high purity germanium detectors,鈥 UNC Chapel Hill Honors Thesis (2019). url:
