Tanner Trickle
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Biography
Professor Tanner Trickle received his PhD in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 2022, and his bachelor's degrees in Mathematics and Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2017. He was a postdoctoral research associate at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory before joining the faculty at the University of Illinois in 2025.
Research Statement
Professor Trickle's research explores the nature of dark matter and its observable effects. He uses concepts and experiments from particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology, as well as condensed matter physics and quantum information science, to investigate dark matter candidates across the entire allowed mass spectrum. Working at the intersection of theory and experiment, his work pioneers innovative search techniques, develops new cosmological models for light dark matter, and predicts the wide range of physical signatures that could be found in current and future experiments using effective field theory.