Flip Tanedo spends his time thinking about dark matter.
He grew up in Los Angeles and fell in love with physics after reading The Physics of Star Trek. This carried into degrees in mathematics and physics at Stanford, Cambridge, Durham, and a Ph.D at Cornell. After a postdoc at UC Irvine, he is faculty at UC Riverside where he is known for being covered in chalk dust after a long day’s work.
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Flip is the first Filipino-American professor of particle physics. He runs a Physical Science book club (“Phy-Sci”) at his local independent book store. He enjoys swimming, basketball, and speculative fiction
Flip Tanedo is an assistant professor of theoretical physics at the University of California, Riverside. His research seeks to discover how dark matter fits into our fundamental understanding of nature.
Service: Open House Committee (chair) · Website Committee (chair) · Graduate Diversity Committee · Outreach Committee · Reviewer · Cientifico Latino Mentor · Phy Sci Book Club Moderator · POWUR faculty adviser · UCEAP Ad Hoc Summer Physics Review Committee · APS IDEA UCR lead · Snowmass TF1: CF Liaison ·
I am a theoretical physicist specializing in particle physics. My main focus has been the search for an fundamental theory of dark matter: what is it, how did it get here, and how can experiments tell us about its dynamics?
Two aspects of this program are
The puzzles and tools in particle physics spill beyond historical disciplines. These include exciting overlaps with rapidly growing fields like multimessenger astronomy, particle-cosmology, machine learning, and information.
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Tanedo Group
I am one of the faculty in the UCR particle theory group. I also work with some of the theory faculty in the UCR astro group.
UCR undergraduates seeking mentoring in particle physics (e.g. through NMC or CL) may contact me.
* - co-advised, ◊ - postdoc, † - undergraduate, ‡ - high-school, § - visiting
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