Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics

For decades, we have known that most of the matter in our universe is invisible. Galaxies rotate too fast, clusters of galaxies bend light too strongly, and the cosmic web holds together with a gravitational pull that ordinary matter alone cannot supply. This unseen substance—dark matter—accounts for roughly 85% of the matter in the cosmos and dictates how cosmic structures form and evolve. Yet, despite decades of international effort and extraordinary experimental ingenuity, its nature remains one of the deepest mysteries in physics.

In the era of multi-messenger astrophysics, indirect searches for dark matter are advancing rapidly. By studying the possible byproducts of dark matter interactions—such as gamma rays, neutrinos, and cosmic rays—we can probe a broad range of dark matter candidates across many energy scales. In this talk, I will present novel observational strategies I have developed to search for signals of new physics and discuss the exciting opportunities offered by current and upcoming observatories.