The Dark Matter Discoverer's Guidebook
A Companion Site for the Guide
Jodi Cooley is the Executive Director of SNOLAB and Professor of Physics at Queen’s University. Stephen Jacob Sekula is the Research Group Manager at SNOLAB and Professor of Physics at Queen’s University. Both authors have over 24 years of experience in hunting for and discovering rare phenomena, and have received awards and distinctions for their ability to educate and communicate science to many audiences.
Stephen Jacob Sekula is a Professor of Physics at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada and currently serves as the Research Group Manager at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada. SNOLAB is the cleanest and deepest scientific laboratory in the world. At 6800ft below the Earth’s surface, the lab is home to over a dozen experiments. Many are focused on Stephen’s current interests: the nature of dark matter and the use of the neutrino as an astronomical tool. He was formerly a Professor of Experimental Particle Physics at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, TX, USA and Chair of the Department of Physics at SMU. While at SMU he served as Department Chair of Physics and the Altshuler Distinguish Teaching Award, its highest distinction for tenured faculty.