Yanou Cui
Prof. Cui received her Ph.D. from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Before joining UCR, she held research positions/fellowships at KITP (UCSB), Harvard University, University of Maryland and Perimeter Institute.
Research Interests:
Prof. Cui’s research interests are in the area of theoretical high energy physics, including elementary particle physics and its interface with cosmology/astrophysics. She works on theoretical model-building addressing outstanding questions such as the hierarchy problem related to the Higgs boson mass, the identity of dark matter and the origin of matter anti-matter asymmetry. Her work also concerns experimental probes of new particle physics beyond the Standard Model at various frontier experiments such as the Large Hadron Collider, dark matter detectors, neutrino experiments and Cosmic Microwave Background observatories. In light of the recent gravitational wave discovery by LIGO, she has been developing new research directions on utilizing gravitational waves to probe new particle physics and cosmology.