Michael Dine
University of California, Santa Cruz
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Primary Section: 13, Physics Membership Type:
Member
(elected 2019)
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Biosketch
Michael Dine is Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of California Santa Cruz. He is known for work in particle physics and cosmology, including issues of dark matter, the formation of the matter-antimatter asymmetry, and issues in physics beyond the Standard Model. He has also made contributions to our understanding of field theory and string theory. Dine grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and attended Johns Hopkins University and Yale University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and a Long Term Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, before taking a faculty position at the City College of the City University of New York for five years, and then his position at Santa Cruz. Dine has served as director of the Graduate Program and Department Chair, and has served on numerous boards and professional committees. Dine is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Research Interests
Dine's current research includes studies of questions in the Standard Model, particularly the values of the quark masses; issues associate with axions and the strong CP problem; and questions in string theory, particularly related to cosmology. He is also writing a popular book on particle physics and cosmology.
