Partner Investigators

Dr Luca Scotto Lavina is a CNRS Director of Research leading the Xenon group in the LPNHE Laboratory, Paris. He currently works on XENONnT, the latest generation of the XENON Project, one of the most successful projects aiming to detect Dark Matter directly in our galaxy with terrestrial, underground detectors based on dual-phase xenon TPC technology.

Professor Anton Wallner (HZDR) is the Head of the Department of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry and Isotope Research at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf.

Sara Diglio is a CNRS researcher at the SUBATECH laboratory in Nantes, France. Her scientific interests range from particle and astroparticle physics to detector technologies.

Professor Karl Jakobs (Uni of Freiburg) is an experimental particle physicist with a well-established career using detectors situated at particle colliders.

Professor Gianfranco Bertone (Uni of Amsterdam) is an internationally renowned theoretical physicist working at the interface between particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology.

Professor Phil Hopkins (Caltech) is a world-leading computational astrophysicists and expert on dark matter simulations, and has developed one of the standard supercomputer simulation codes, GIZMO.

Professor Tracy Slatyer (MIT) is an esteemed theoretical particle physicist, who has worked extensively on searches for and models of dark matter, especially searches employing astrophysical and cosmological data.

One of the world’s most eminent theoretical physicists, Professor Frank Wilczek (Stockholm Uni) was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics (alongside David Gross and Hugh David Politzer) for his discovery of asymptotic freedom in strong interactions.

Dr. Michael Hotchkis (ANSTO) is Principal Research Scientist at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation.

Dr. Damian Marinaro (Defence Science Technology Group) explores technology transfer between the Centre and the Defence, National Security, and Industry sectors.

Professor Marcella Diemoz (INFN Roma) has over thirty years of experience in high-energy physics including a variety of international leadership roles within the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.

Dr. Aldo Ianni (LNGS) has considerable experience in the development and operation of dark-matter direct-detection experiments in low-radiation underground environments.

Associate Professor Gray Rybka (Uni of Washington) is a leading researcher in the area of axion direct-detection searches.

Professor Neil Spooner (Uni of Sheffield) is a world-leading expert in dark matter detection and neutrino physics, including development of directional dark-matter direct-detection methods.