Senior Member, KICP
Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Scientist, Fermilab
- Address:
- Eckhardt Research Center
Room 457
5640 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
- Phone:
- 773-702-5771
- Email:
- kadrlica@fnal.gov
- Website:
- https://kadrlica.github.io/
Background
Ph.D. Physics, Stanford University, 2013
Research
My research focuses on using astrophysical observations to understand the fundamental nature of dark matter and dark energy. I work on large cosmic surveys including the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). Recently, I have been interested in using the faintest and most dark-matter-dominated galaxies to try to understand the fundamental nature of dark matter. I consider myself to be an experimental particle cosmologist, and I am heavily invested in the instruments and infrastructure that make these large surveys possible.
News & Highlights
- Prof. Alex Drlica-Wagner selected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society, October 4, 2024
- Congratulations to Edgar Marrufo Villalpando!, December 8, 2022
- “Twelve for dinner: How the Milky Way ‘ate’ smaller star clusters and galaxies”, UChicago News, January 12, 2022
- Nora Shipp has been selected to receive a William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship, May 20, 2020
- After mapping millions of galaxies, Dark Energy Survey finishes data collection, January 9, 2019