Andy Geraci

Andrew Geraci completed his undergraduate studies in Physics and Mathematics at the University of Chicago, and earned a Ph.D. in Physics at Stanford University in 2007. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at NIST in Boulder, CO where he was a National Research Council postdoctoral Research Associate.  In 2011 Geraci started a research group as an assistant professor at the University of Nevada. He moved to Northwestern University in 2018, where he is currently professor of physics and a member of the Center for Fundamental Physics and the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics. His research interests include tabletop tests for physics beyond the Standard Model, dark matter, experimental gravitation, gravitational wave detection, ultrasensitive force detection, hybrid quantum systems, and quantum optomechanics. Geraci also leads ARIADNE, an international collaboration using NMR-based techniques to search for the QCD axion. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and recently the recipient of the 2023 APS Francis Pipkin Award.