I am a theoretical particle physicist focusing on models of electroweak symmetry breaking and dark matter.
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The recent discovery of the Higgs boson was the crowning achievement of the Standard Model of particle physics, a theory that accurately describes all observed subatomic phenomena. Despite its successes, however, the Standard Model has two glaring deficiencies that point to new physics that has yet to be understood: first, the mass of the Higgs is almost impossibly lighter than what we expect from quantum theory; and secondly, it does not identify a particle to explain the dark matter that holds our galaxy together.
Ongoing experiments from space-based particle detectors to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are likely to elucidate the nature of these mysteries in the near future. My research focuses on how the results of these experiments can be interpreted to construct extensions of the Standard Model that solve these open questions. I am especially interested in applying the theoretical tools developed to solve the lightness of the Higgs to construct models of dark matter and, conversely, reinterpreting experimental searches for dark matter in ways that can inform us about the interactions of the Higgs boson.