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Sarah Schon

Sarah Schon — Associate Research Professor — Faculty
Office: 314 Whitmore Laboratory
Address: 104 Davey Lab University Park, PA 16802 US
sqs7027@psu.edu
Sarah Schon
Physics Dark Matter IGC

I predominantly work on dark matter phenomenology and how we can use astrophysical signals to constrain the fundamental nature of dark matter. I'm also interested in all manners of theoretical astrophysics, especially revolving around the Cosmic Dawn and early star formation.

Sarah Schon's research group

Name Role Affiliations Email Phone Office Centers Research topics
John Blakely John Blakely Undergraduate Student Astronomy, Physics jpb6799@psu.edu +1 814 865 0410 Osmond Laboratory CTOC, IGC Black Holes, Dark Matter
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Monica Rincon Ramirez

The IGC wordmark was created by Monica Rincon Ramirez while she was a graduate student at the Institute. Monica enjoys drawing new connections between fundamental theory and observations. Her graduate work included general relativity, loop quantum gravity, and quantum fields in cosmological backgrounds; her thesis focused on effective quantum corrections to gravitational phenomena from spinfoams and applications to cosmology. She received her PhD in 2024.

The wordmark symbolizes the scope of research at the IGC. The base represents quantum gravity, evoking the quantum geometrical picture from spinfoams and loop quantum gravity — approaches studied at the Center for Fundamental Theory. The middle shows galaxies embedded in a smooth surface characteristic of spacetime in general relativity and the larger physical scales studied at the Center for Theoretical and Observational Cosmology. The top curves to an extreme representing a supermassive black hole accompanied by an energetic jet, with a binary black hole pair nearby — the high-energy phenomena studied at the Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics.