People
Faculty
Professor Nicole Bell
Nicole works at the interface of particle physics with astrophysics and cosmology. Her current interests include dark matter, the cosmological matter-antimatter asymmetry and neutrino physics. She leads the theory program of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics and is the President of the Australian Institute of Physics. More →
Dr Peter Cox
Peter’s research is focused on dark matter model-building and direct detection. He is particularly interested in possible connections between dark matter and other long-standing problems of the Standard Model. Peter also works on other aspects of beyond the Standard Model physics. He is an Australian Research Council DECRA fellow. More →
Professor Matthew Dolan
Matthew’s research is on the phenomenology of Beyond-the-Standard Model physics. He is interested in the phenomenology of all aspects of dark matter, and in the development of new analysis methods which can be applied to collider physics. More →
Professor Raymond Volkas
Ray has worked on many aspects of physics beyond the standard model in his career. His current interests centre on the construction of theories for neutrino mass generation and their associated flavour physics effects, the particle nature of dark matter, and baryogenesis. More →
Research fellows
Dr Avirup Ghosh
Avirup’s research focuses on building models that can answer questions like the origin of dark matter, neutrino mass, and the matter-antimatter asymmetry. He has studied freeze-in production of dark matter and its possible signatures in colliders. He has also explored the production of asymmetric dark matter. Recently, he has focused on the inflationary origin of dark matter, its cosmological evolution, and the implications for structure formation.
Fred Hiskens
Dr Stephan Meighen-Berger
Stephan’s research focuses on atmospheric particle shower phenomenology, mainly neutrinos. He is particularly interested in how to extract Standard Model and beyond the Standard Model physics from experimental data. For that, he uses data from high- and low-energy experiments.
Dr Jayden Newstead
Jay works on particle dark matter phenomenology, mainly focusing on the direct detection of dark matter. He is also interested in looking for beyond standard model physics with coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering. More →
PhD students
 Maaz Hayat |
 Alex Ritter |
 Iman Shaukat Ali |
 Alexei Sopov |
 Michael Virgato |
 Joshua Wood |
MSc students
 Vishal Ayyagari |
 Lucia Stockdale |
 Michael Verde |
 Ho Man Yim |
 Eden Isaac |
Jamie Papworth-Dent |
 Willem van der Craats |
Alumni
Students
| Fred Hiskens | PhD 2024 | |
| Alex Ritter | PhD 2024 | |
| Michael Virgato | PhD 2024 | |
| Ayodele Ore | PhD 2023 | Postdoc at Heidelberg |
| Innes Bigaran | PhD 2022 | Postdoc at Northwestern/Fermilab |
| Leon Friedrich | PhD 2021 | Postdoc at U. Mass. Amherst/TD Lee Institute |
| Isaac Sanderson | PhD 2021 | Industry |
| John Gargalionis | PhD 2021 | Postdoc at IFIC Valencia |
| Tomasz Dutka | PhD 2021 | Postdoc at KIAS |
| Stephen Lonsdale | PhD 2018 | Postdoc at IBS Korea |
| Rebecca Leane | PhD 2017 | Postdocs at MIT, SLAC; Staff at SLAC |
| Amelia Brennan | PhD 2017 | Data analyst |
| Jackson Clarke | PhD 2016 | Industry |
| Peter Cox | PhD 2016 | Postdoc at IPMU Tokyo; Faculty at U. Melbourne |
| Iason Baldes | PhD 2015 | Postdocs at DESY, U. Brussels |
| Ben Callen | PhD 2014 | Data scientist |
| Nadine Pesor | PhD 2014 | Quantitative analyst |
| Ahmad Galea | PhD 2013 | Postdoc at U. Oslo |
| Jayne Thompson | PhD 2012 | Postdoc at Nat. U. Singapore |
| Thomas Jacques | PhD 2011 | Postdocs at Arizona State, U. Geneva, SISSA |
| Damien George | PhD 2009 | Postdocs at NIKHEF, U. Cambridge |
| Sandy Law | PhD 2009 | Postdocs at Chung Yuan Christian U., Nat. Cheng Kung U. |
| Alison Demaria | PhD 2007 | Industry |
Postdocs
| Michael Baker | 2019 — 2023 | Faculty at U. Massachusetts Amherst |
| Sandra Robles | 2017 — 2021 | Postdocs at Kings College London, Fermilab |
| Giorgio Busoni | 2015 — 2018 | Postdocs at MPI Heidelberg, Australian National University |
| Tyler Corbett | 2015 — 2018 | Postdocs at Niels Bohr Institute, U. Vienna |
| Zhao-Huan Yu | 2015 — 2018 | Faculty at Sun Yat-sen U. |
| Yi Cai | 2012 — 2017 | Faculty at Sun Yat-sen U. |
| James Barnard | 2012 — 2016 | Data scientist |
| Andrew Spray | 2012 — 2015 | Postdoc at IBS Korea |
| Anibal Medina | 2012 — 2015 | Postdoc at IPhT Saclay; Faculty at La Plata U. |
| Tirtha Sankar Ray | 2012 — 2014 | Faculty at IIT Kharagpur |
| Michael Schmidt | 2010 — 2014 | Lecturer at U. Sydney; Faculty at UNSW |
| Donatello Dolce | 2010 — 2012 | Lecturer at U. Camerino |
| Kalliopi Petraki | 2009 — 2012 | Postdoc at NIKHEF; Faculty at LPTHE, Sorbonne U. |
| Benedict von Harling | 2008 — 2012 | Postdocs at SISSA, DESY, IFAE Barcelona |
| Archil Kobakhidze | 2007 — 2012 | Faculty at U. Sydney |
| Nicholas Setzer | 2008 — 2011 | Postdoc at U. Granada |
| Shrihari Gopalakrishna | 2010 | Faculty at IMSc Chennai |
Faculty
| Andrea Thamm | 2019 — 2023 | Faculty at U. Massachusetts Amherst |
| Tony Gherghetta | 2008 — 2013 | Faculty at U. Minnesota |