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University of Chicago astrophysicist celebrated for work investigating the cosmic microwave background for clues about the early universe.

Congratulations to  Fei Xu for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation on “Peeking Into the Future of Dark Matter Searches”.

PhD in Physics, Colorado School of Mines, 2023

I am a theorist with a broad interest in astroparticle physics and cosmology, including neutrinos, gamma rays, dark matter, and gravitational waves. Specifically, I am interested in the origin and detection of TeV--PeV neutrinos and the MeV diffuse supernova neutrino background.

Citation: "For the development of techniques expanding the low-energy reach of new particle detector technologies, with applications in neutrino physics, dark matter searches, and the study of charged-lepton flavor violating modes of muon decay."
 

Instruments would help us understand beginning, history, makeup of the universe

In an interview with APS News, Kolb discusses the Big Bang, parallel universes, and the need for public outreach.

Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Fellow
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago

Associate Professor, Department of Physics
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2011
 

Ph.D., University of Oxford, 2022

Ph.D., MIT, 2019

Brinson Fellow, University of Chicago

Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow

Assistant Professor | PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz, 2021

Ph.D., University of Washington, 2022