Associate Professor
- Address:
- ERC 457
- Pronouns:
- he, him, his
- Phone:
- (773) 702-5771
- Email:
- kadrlica@uchicago.edu
- Website:
- https://kadrlica.github.io/
Background
PhD, Stanford University, 2013
Full CV can be found here.
Research Fields
- Dark matter
- Dark energy
- Cosmology
- Particle astrophysics
- Detector development
Research Groups
- Survey Science Group (Leader)
- Fermilab Cosmic Physics Center (Leader)
Scientific Projects
- Dark Energy Survey (DES)
- Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)
- DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey (DELVE)
Students
- Nora Shipp (graduate/Astronomy & Astrophysics)
- Dimitrios Tanoglidis (graduate/Astronomy & Astrophysics)
- Edgar Marrufo Villalpando (graduate/Physics)
- Chin Yi Tan (graduate/Physics)
Affiliations
Research
My research focuses on using astrophysical observations to understand the fundamental nature of dark matter and dark energy. I work on large cosmic surveys including the Dark Energy Survey (DES), the DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey (DELVE), and the Rubin Observatoary Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). Recently, I have been interested in using the faintest and most dark-matter-dominated galaxies to try to understand the fundamental nature of dark matter. I consider myself to be an experimental particle cosmologist, and I am heavily invested in the instruments and infrastructure that make these large surveys possible.
News & Highlights
- Congratulations to Alex Drlica-Wagner, March 1, 2023
- “Twelve for dinner: How the Milky Way ‘ate’ smaller star clusters and galaxies”, UChicago News, January 12, 2022
- Nora Shipp has been selected to receive a William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship, May 20, 2020
‘Groupie’ galaxies orbiting Milky Way tell us about dark matter, how galaxy formed, May 15, 2020
Dwarf galaxies pose new questions about dark matter and the early universe that models are struggling to answer, October 1, 2019
Sky Rivers, October 4, 2018
Dwarf Galaxies Loom Large in the Quest for Dark Matter, June 21, 2015