Partner Investigators

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. Richard Garrett (ANSTO) is Senior Advisor, Strategic Projects, and Manager, Industry and External Engagement at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.