Jodi Cooley

Jodi Ann Cooley (also published as Cooley-Sekula) is an American experimental physicist specializing in the search for particles that might constitute dark matter. She is a professor of physics at Southern Methodist University and the executive director of SNOLAB, an underground laboratory for dark matter physics and neutrino observation, located in a disused mine in Ontario, Canada.[1]

Education and career

Cooley majored in applied mathematics and physics at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, graduating in 1997. She did her graduate study in physics at University of Wisconsin - Madison, completing her Ph.D. in 2003 with the dissertation Searching for Neutrinos from Diffuse Astronomical Sources with the AMANDA-II Detector.[2]

After postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working on the Super-Kamiokande neutrino experiment, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher from 2004 to 2009 at Stanford University. There, her interests shifted from neutrinos to dark matter through her work on the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search CDMS-II experiment in the Soudan Underground Mine in Minnesota.[2]

She became an assistant professor at Southern Methodist University in 2009 and was tenured as an associate professor in 2014, continuing her work with the Soudan Cryogenic Dark Matter Search.[2] In 2022 she was named executive director of SNOLAB.[1]

Recognition

In 2018, Cooley was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[3] In 2022, she was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Particles and Fields, "for outstanding contributions to searches for dark matter particles".[4]

In 2019 the American Association of Physics Teachers named her as the recipient of their Klopsteg Memorial Lecture Award.[5]

References
  1. Dr. Jodi Cooley named Executive Director of SNOLAB, SNOLAB, June 30, 2022, retrieved 2022-10-21
  2. Curriculum vitae (PDF), Southern Methodist University, January 26, 2019, retrieved 2022-10-21
  3. "SMU Physicist Honored for Dark Matter Research: Jodi Cooley named fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science", SMU Research News, Southern Methodist University, November 28, 2018, retrieved 2022-10-21
  4. "Fellows nominated in 2022 by the Division of Nuclear Physics", APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, retrieved 2022-10-21
  5. Jodi A. Cooley Named as Recipient of the 2019 Klopsteg Memorial Lecture Award, American Association of Physics Teachers, March 28, 2019, retrieved 2022-10-21
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