Katelin Schutz - Global Excellence Initiative

“A member of McGill’s Trottier Space Institute, Schutz studies some of the largest structures in the universe in order to better understand the smallest building blocks of matter.

Her work spans astrophysics, particle physics and cosmology, with a focus on dark matter, the mysterious and invisible form of matter that accounts for 85 per cent of the universe’s mass.

Schutz and her research group use astrophysical systems as natural laboratories to investigate the particles and interactions that may lie beyond the Standard Model. Drawing on observations and theoretical calculations, they explore how undiscovered forms of matter could affect astrophysical systems like stars and galaxies, with the goal of uncovering the composition and behaviour of dark matter.

Schutz holds a Canada Research Chair in Astrophysics Beyond the Standard Model and was named a CIFAR Global Scholar in 2024.

Prior to joining McGill in 2021, Schutz was a Pappalardo Fellow and a NASA Einstein Fellow at MIT. In 2020, she received the J. J. and Noriko Sakurai Dissertation Award in Theoretical Particle Physics from the American Physical Society for her highly original contributions addressing the nature of dark matter.”

Published by, McGill Reporter