Nicholas Rodd

Nick Rodd is a scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory working at the interface of particle physics and astrophysics, who spends his days trying to figure out what dark matter is made of. Nick grew up in Melbourne, Australia, and after receiving his undergraduate degree in law, decided he wanted to do the exact opposite and moved into physics. He moved to MIT in the US for his PhD, which he completed under the supervision of Tracy Slatyer in 2018. His thesis, “Listening to the Universe through Indirect Detection,” was recognized with two awards, one as the top thesis in particle physics, and separately as the top in astrophysics. Before moving to LBL, Nick was a faculty member in the CERN theory group in Geneva, where he moved after spending three years at UC Berkeley as a Miller Fellow.