Katelin Schutz

Katelin Schutz is an Assistant Professor at McGill University, where she explores astrophysical manifestations of physics beyond the Standard Model.

Until 2021, Schutz was a Pappalardo Fellow and NASA Einstein Fellow in the MIT Department of Physics. She received her PhD in physics from UC Berkeley in 2019 with the support of fellowships from the Hertz Foundation and the National Science Foundation. Her dissertation, “Searching for the invisible: how dark forces shape our Universe” was supervised by Hitoshi Murayama and won the American Physical Society Sakurai Dissertation Award.

Schutz received her Bachelors from MIT in 2014 with a thesis jointly supervised by David Kaiser and Tracy Slatyer. In her spare time, she loves making and eating all kinds of food, savoury and sweet, from a range of cuisines.