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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Theoretical Physics,Elementary Particle Physics |
| Keywords | Dark Matter, Early Cosmology, Physics beyond the Standard Model |
| Honours and awards | 2023: Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2022: Chancellor's Professor, UC Irvine 2019: Academic Senate Mid-Career Faculty Award for Research, UC Irvine 2019: Mentoring Award, American Physical Society Division of Particles and Fields 2017: Van der Waals Professor, University of Amsterdam 2016: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Forschungspreis, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2013: Fellow of the American Physical Society 2013: UCI Chancellor’s Fellow Professor |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Irvine |
| Institution | University of California, Irvine |
| Institute | Department of Physics and Astronomy |
| Homepage | http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/tait/ |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Tilman Plehn | Institut für Theoretische Physik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/06/2017 |
Programme(s)
| 2016 | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Tait is a world-leading researcher in theoretical particle physics and is well-known for his contributions to physics at hadron colliders and dark matter research. He is a driving force behind a unified theoretical description of different experimental strategies to identify dark matter particles and measure their properties. His work combines studies of gamma rays for example from the center of our galaxy, earth-based detectors searching for dark matter collisions with atoms, and dark matter searches at particle colliders. In Germany he plans to study new signatures at the Large Hadron Collider and the Cherenkov Telescope Array experiment. |