In a profile published Sept. 25, 2026, MIT described Faith Reyes, a sixth-year PhD student in the Formaggio Group at the Laboratory for Nuclear Science, as a member of the Ricochet neutrino experiment. Ricochet is an international collaboration studying neutrinos produced by a nuclear reactor at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France. According to the report, the experiment seeks to observe coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering, a low-energy interaction in which a neutrino scatters off an atomic nucleus.

Reyes said her original MIT-based project would not be ready within her timeline, so she shifted to detector work in France. As Ricochet grew from two detectors to nine and eventually 18, she and a colleague developed a software framework to automate repetitive analysis and monitoring tasks. She described collaborators as trusting her contribution.

The report said Reyes had visited France for two three-month stays and a nine-month Chateaubriand Fellowship period, and that she hoped to continue research after her doctorate and was considering a postdoctoral position.