Kris Sigurdson

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Kris Sigurdson is an Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics and Cosmology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and Visiting Faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He completed graduate studies at the University of Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology, where he received his Ph.D. in physics in 2005. He subsequently held a NASA Hubble Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study. He was named a Visiting Fellow of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in 2011. A theorist, he has broad interests in particle and astrophysics, including dark matterphysics, baryogenesis, cosmological perturbation theory, the origin of our Universe, and experimental research in radio astronomy and cosmology.


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A Speed Test for Dark Matter

Whether mysterious high-energy photon emissions from our Galaxy come from dark matter or a more mundane source might be resolved by detecting their Doppler shifts along different lines-of-sight. Read More »