Charlotte Strege

Research:

I am a second year Phd student supervised by Dr Roberto Trotta. My main reserach interests are astroparticle physics and cosmology. My work focuses on better understanding the properties of particle dark matter. Dark matter makes up 23% of the energy density of the universe, yet its nature is unknown. Signatures of the dark matter particle are expected to show up in accelerator, direct detection and indirect detection experiments. Only by combining data from these different types of searches can the maximum amount of information be extracted in order to constrain the properties of the dark matter particle. Therefore, my Phd focuses on characterizing particle dark matter via multiple probes.

Scientific publications:

Preprints:

Fundamental statistical limitations of future dark matter direct detection experiments.

C. Strege, R. Trotta, G. Bertone, Annika H.G. Peter, Pat Scott

e-print archive:1201.3631

Published papers in peer reviewed journals:

Updated global fits of the cMSSM including the latest LHC SUSY and Higgs searches and XENON100 data

C. Strege, G. Bertone, D.G. Cerdeno, M. Fornasa, R. Ruiz de Austri, and R. Trotta (2012)

JCAP03(2012)030, e-print archive: 1112.4192, doi

Global fits of the cMSSM including the first LHC and XENON100 data

G. Bertone, D.G. Cerdeno, M. Fornasa, R. Ruiz de Austri, C. Strege and R. Trotta (2012)

JCAP01(2012)015, e-print archive: 1107.1715, doi

Talks:

04/2012: TAPIR Seminar, California Institute of Technology

Constraints on Dark Matter and SUSY from LHC and direct detection experiments

10/2011: Theory HEP Seminar, McGill University

Constraining dark matter properties using current and future direct detection experiments

Teaching:

2012: Tutor for the Astroparticle Physics Masters course. Lecture on "Indirect detection of dark matter" on 23rd March 2012. University of Amsterdam.

2011: Undergraduate tutorials in Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Imperial College London.

Background:

I received a MSc in Theoretical Physics ("Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces") from Imperial College London in 2010.

I received a BSc in Physics from Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany in 2009.