My research is focused on precision measurements of the fundamental parameters of the standard model of particle physics, and searches for new physics beyond the standard model. Currently, I am working on experiments aiming to discover (or rule out) subtle differences in matter and antimatter in the lepton sector (neutrinos and electron-like charged leptons). Such effects would be evidence CP (Charge-Parity) violation, and would constitute the first measurement of the last unknown parameter of the "neutrino-enhanced" standard model. The T2K and Super-Kamiokande experiments are currently taking data, and we are leading a new joint analysis of neutrinos produced in the T2K beam and neutrinos produced in the upper atmosphere, both of which are measured by the Super-Kamiokande detector, located under a mountain in Kamioka, Japan. I am also working on a next-generation long-baseline neutrino experiment called DUNE, which will send a beam of neutrinos from Fermilab in Batavia, IL to a massive liquid argon located a mile underground in a former gold mine in Lead, SD. DUNE will feature a novel near detector concept being developed at the University of Minnesota, in which the near detector will move off-axis from the center of the neutrino beam to observe a variety of neutrino energy spectra. This will hopefully allow us to make precision measures of fundamental neutrino oscillation parameters, including the parameter that controls CP violation, delta_CP.

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Research Groups

Education

Ph.D. in Physics, University of Colorado, May 2009
Advisor: Eric Zimmerman

M.S. in Physics, University of Colorado, May 2007

B.Ch.E., Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, May 2001

Professional Background

Associate Professor, 2020- 2023
 Stony Brook University 

Assistant Professor, 2014 to 2020 
Stony Brook University 

Postdoctoral Fellow 2009 to 2014 
TRIUMF 

JSPS Fellow,  July to December, 2013
Grant Awarded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Served at the Kamioka Observatory in Japan (Super-Kamiokande) 

Graduate Research Assistant, 2001 to 2009 
University of Colorado

Recent News

Welcome/introductory article about Professor Wilking, here

Honors and Awards

2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics