Tien-Tien Yu
Physics, University of Oregon
Research Focus
Research Interests
About Tien-Tien
Tien-Tien Yu is an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Oregon in Eugene, OR. Prior to arriving at UO in 2018, she was a fellow in the CERN Theory Group in Geneva, Switzerland and a postdoctoral associate at the CN Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University. She received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI under the supervision of Vernon Barger; she spent two fruitful years of her PhD in the theory group at Fermilab in Batavia, IL.
Professor Yu’s research focuses on searches for dark matter candidates lighter than a proton. She is a founding member of the SENSEI collaboration, which utilizes silicon CCDs to detect sub-GeV dark matter. She is also interested in ultralight dark matter candidates and has proposed methods to search for imprints of these candidates via cosmological and astrophysical signatures.
Honors
2021 - New Horizons Physics Prize
Fermilab Fellowship in Theoretical Physics
National Science Foundation CAREER Award
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Education
Postdoc
Theory Division, CERN, 08/2016 - 08/2018
YITP, Stony Brook University, 08/2013 - 08/2016
Ph.D.
Physics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 08/2013
Bachelor's
Physics, Math, University of Chicago, 06/2007
