Rebecca Leane
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University
Research Focus
Research Interests
About Rebecca
I grew up in Melbourne, Australia, where I completed my Bachelor and PhD degrees at Monash University and the University of Melbourne respectively. In between, I enjoyed a year living in the UK for my masters degree at the University of Cambridge. For my postdoctoral research, I moved to the US for positions at the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University. This year, I’m starting as a Staff Scientist in the Particle Theory group at SLAC.
The main goal of my research is to discover the fundamental nature of dark matter. My approach towards achieving this goal is (i) identifying new ways that astrophysical systems can be exploited to expose new particle interactions, as well as (ii) using astrophysical datasets to discover or exclude new particle physics properties.
Education
Postdoc
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, 2020 - 2021
MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017 - 2020
Ph.D.
Theoretical Physics, University of Melbourne, 2017
Master's
Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, 2013
Bachelor's
Physics, Mathematics, Monash University, 2011
