Ken Clark

Ken Clark received his PhD from Queen’s University working on the PICASSO experiment and publishing the first full analysis of the latest generation of detectors, setting a world-leading limit for the direct detection of spin-dependent dark matter. He went on to postdoctoral positions at Case Western Reserve University, Oxford University, and Penn State University, working on the LUX, SNO+, and IceCube experiments respectively. Following these positions, he held an assistant professorship at the University of Toronto and was a research scientist at SNOLAB working on the PICO experiment. There he led the operation of the PICO-60 experiment as well as the installation of the PICO-40L detectors. Moving to a professorship at Queen’s University allowed him to become spokesperson of the SBC experiment, searching for lower-mass dark matter using a bubble chamber and the Assistant Scientific Director of the McDonald Institute.