Biography
Dr Kevin Thieme is an experimental astroparticle physicist working on direct dark matter detection with liquid-noble-gas time projection chambers. He is a member of the XLZD, LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ), and MIGDAL collaborations, and his research focuses on the design of a next-generation dark matter detector with unprecedented sensitivity, as well as on the physics of low-energy particle interactions. Before joining the University of Oxford in 2025, he was a research fellow at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and an associated member of CERN, contributing to the DarkSide-20k experiment at INFN LNGS. Kevin received his PhD in physics from the University of Zurich with distinction, following bachelor’s and master’s studies at ETH Zurich.
Research Interests
Dark Matter, Neutrinos, Liquid Noble Gas Detectors and Instrumentation