She obtained her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2010, under the direction of Douglas Finkbeiner. She then joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton as a postdoctoral researcher, before moving to MIT in the fall of 2013. Her research focuses on probing the nature of dark matter, with a particular emphasis on astrophysical and cosmological searches for signals of dark matter physics. Her research interests range from high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics to collider phenomenology and formal particle theory. For more information about her research visit http://web.mit.edu/physics/people/faculty/slatyer_tracy.html