Behind the Scenes of the Universe: The Worldwide Race to Discover Dark Matter

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Gianfranco Bertone, University of Amsterdam
Speaker Bio
Dr. Gianfranco Bertone received his PhD at Oxford University and the Institute of Astrophysics in Paris. He has held teaching and research positions at the Fermilab, the University of Padova, the University of Zurich, and the CNRS Paris. In 2011 he joined GRAPPA, the new center of excellence in Gravitation and Astroparticle Physics at the University of Amsterdam.
His research areas of interest include Particle Dark Matter, High Energy Astrophysics, Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays, Theories with Extra-Dimensions, Intermediate and Supermassive Black Holes, Physics beyond the Standard Model, Physics of Compact Stars and General Relativity. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal Physics of the Dark Universe, editor of Particle Dark Matter: Observations, Models and Searches, and author of the book Behind the Scenes of the Universe, From the Higgs to Dark Matter.