• Associate professor Tracy Slatyer focuses on searching through telescope data for signals of mysterious phenomena such as dark matter, the invisible stuff that makes up more than 80 percent of the matter in the universe but has only been detected through its gravitational pull. In her teaching, she seeks to draw out and support a new and diverse crop of junior scientists.

    Data-mining for dark matter

    Tracy Slatyer hunts through astrophysical data for clues to the invisible universe.

    MIT News