Flip's Bio Sketch
Theoretical physicist Philip (Flip) Tanedo is an associate professor at the University of California, Riverside. His research seeks to determine the fundamental physics of dark matter. He is a 2021 NSF CAREER award winner and a 2020 Hellman Fellow.
He received his Ph.D at Cornell University as a National Science Foundation graduate research fellow and a recipient of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. His thesis focused on weakly coupled descriptions of strong dynamics and explained the finiteness of brane-localized dipole operators in theories of extra dimensions. He completed his postdoctoral work at the University of California, Irvine as a Chancellor’s ADVANCE postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Tanedo grew up in Los Angeles and is a proud product of the Los Angeles Unified School District. He earned his bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics with honors and distinction from Stanford University. As a Marshall Scholar, he completed Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge University and a masters degree in physics at the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology at Durham University.
Dr. Tanedo was appointed to serve as the theory/cosmic frontier liaison for the 2021 Snowmass Community Planning Exercise. He is the first Filipino-American professor of physics. At UCR he is an equity advisor for the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences. He led UCR’s team in the American Physical Society’s Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Alliance, co-created and advises the university’s Physics Organization for Women and the Under-Represented. He was recognized with a 2020 commitment to graduate diversity award by the UCR graduate division, a 2021 Junior Excellence in Teaching Award from the UCR Academy of Distinguished Teaching, and a 2023 Adviser of the Year award from the UCR Office of Student Life. He has appeared on Nova, Science Friday, and Ologies.
