William Shepherd

Assistant Professor, Particle Physics

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shepherd*nbi.ku.dk
+45 31 20 59 19

Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen
Building B, room Bb2

William Shepherd is a new Assistant Professor at the NBIA, beginning in May 2015. William completed his Ph.D. at UC Irvine in 2011, working with Professor Tim Tait. He continued his research as a postdoctoral scholar at UC Santa Cruz before taking up his current position at the NBIA.

Shepherd's research focuses on ensuring that full advantage is taken of all the data available to probe new fundamental physics. He has worked on integrating the data of low-energy probes into the expectations for the LHC, and has particularly focused on the physics of dark matter, developing a dictionary of possible interactions for comparison of experiments ranging from direct detection of dark matter scattering in a mine to telescopes searching for evidence of its annihilations and the LHC attempting to produce new dark matter particles. His research has recently been funded by a MOBILEX grant from the Danish Council for Independent Research, to officially begin in January 2016.