Tracy Robyn Slatyer is a professor of particle physics with a concentration in theoretical astrophysics[2][3] with tenure at MIT.[4] She was a 2014 recipient of the Rossi Prize for gamma ray detection of Fermi bubbles, which are unexpected large structure in our galaxy.[5][6][7] Her research also involves seeking explanations for dark matter and the gamma ray haze at the center of the Milky Way.[8] In 2021, she was awarded a New Horizons in Physics Prize for "major contributions to particle astrophysics, from models of dark matter to the discovery of the "Fermi Bubbles."[1][9]
Professor Tracy Slatyer | |
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Nationality | Australian |
Education | PhD, Harvard |
Awards | New Horizons in Physics Prize[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | particle physics, astrophysics |
Institutions | MIT |
Thesis | Signatures of a new force in the dark matter sector (2010) |
Doctoral advisor | Douglas P. Finkbeiner |
Website | web |
Slatyer was born in the Solomon Islands and grew up in Australia and Fiji. She studied at Narrabundah College in Canberra, Australia.[10] In 2005, she completed her undergraduate in theoretical physics at the Australian National University,[11] and her doctorate in physics at Harvard University in 2010 under the direction of Douglas Finkbeiner.[12]
From 2010 to 2013, she was a John N. Bahcall Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study.[2] She joined the faculty at MIT the same year and received tenure in 2019.[4]
Physicists Tracy Slatyer and Netta Engelhardt and mathematicians Lisa Piccirillo and Nina Holden PhD '18 are honored by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation.