A ground-breaking ceremony was held within the excavated surrounds of the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory today, deep in the Stawell Gold Mine.
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84% of the Universe can't be seen or touched - but we know galaxies would fly apart without the mysterious and little-understood dark matter.
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The Centre celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on 11 February with a series of social media posts featuring remarkable women who study or work in the Dark Matter Centre.
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Professor Karl Jakobs (Uni of Freiburg) is an experimental particle physicist with a well-established career using detectors situated at particle colliders.
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Dr Federico Scutti (Swinburne University of Technology) and worked on Heavy Neutrino research with data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, experimental research for the SABRE dark matter experiment, coordinating the software architecture development and the characterisation of the muon system. He has also been involved in muon flux measurement at SUPL.
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Stawell Secondary College will have front row access to world-class research in a new partnership with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics.
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Professor Aidan Byrne (Advisory Board Chair) commenced as the Provost and Senior Vice-President of The University of Queensland in 2016.
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Sue retired from her role as Chief Scientist at the Bureau of Meteorology in 2018, the culmination of a long Bureau career spanning forecasting, research, science/climate/data policy and leadership roles in IT, observations, engineering and science.
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As Centre Director, Professor Barberio will be responsible for the Centre’s overall strategic direction and operations, with advice from the relevant Centre committees.
Read MoreProfessor Nicole Bell is an international leader in particle and astroparticle physics. She has broad expertise in dark matter phenomenology spanning direct detection, indirect detection, collider searches, astroparticle physics and cosmology.
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Professor Gianfranco Bertone (Uni of Amsterdam) is an internationally renowned theoretical physicist working at the interface between particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology.
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Astroparticle physicist, Professor Céline Bœhm has worked in the UK, France, and Switzerland before her appointment in 2018 as the (second female) Head of School of Physics, University of Sydney.
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Professor Janet Conrad was Chair of the Centre’s International Scientific Advisory Committee (2020-2022).
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University of Hawaii, USA; Chair of the Belle II Publications Committee.
Senior Associate, Outside Opinion. Emeritus Professor, ANU
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Leader of axion dark matter group at Fermilab, USA
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An esteemed and leading particle theorist, Professor Matthew Dolan has investigated Beyond the Standard Model physics for the past decade, making a number of important contributions to dark matter research in collider physics, direct detection and indirect detection.
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Prof Priscilla Cushman (University of Minnesota; Spokesperson of SuperCDMS-SNOLAB) is the current Chair of the CDM International Scientific Advisory Committee
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Professor Alan Duffy is an experienced computational astrophysicist, running large-scale supercomputer simulations to test the growth of dark matter structures.
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Durham University, UK; Fellow of the Royal Society (member 2020-2022)
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