CV for Dr Andrew Cheek see pdf here

• Place and Date of Birth: London, England

  16 Oct 1992

• Phone: +44 7983 573370 (UK) +32 499 44 51 74 (Be)
• Emails: acheek@camk.edu.pl & andrew.cheek1992@gmail.com
• inSPIRE: A.Cheek.1
• Webpage: https://cheekyparticle.github.io/

Positions

Postdoctoral Researcher Astrocent Oct 2021 - Present

At Astrocent, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences, ul.Rektorska 4, 00-614 Warsaw, Poland. Promoter is Prof. Leszek Roszkowski.

Postdoctoral Researcher CP3 UCLouvain Oct 2019 - Sep 2021

At the Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3), Université catholique de Louvain,EOS be.h, Precision predictions and indirect constraints for searches of hidden sectors at the LHC, promoters are Prof. Fabio Maltoni and Dr Chiara Arina.

Education

Durham University, UK – Physics, PhD Oct 2015 - Sep 2019

• Four year position at the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP), Durham University, with STFC grant.
• Supervisor: Prof. David Cerdeño.
• PhD Thesis Title: “Preparing for Dark Matter: Maximising our discrimination power in the event of detection.”, full text.

Durham University, UK – MPhys (Hons) Oct 2011 - Jun 2015

• Masters Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Celine Boehm
• Masters Thesis Title: “Investigation of the Parameter Space for Dirac Dark Matter”

Research

Publications

Preprints:

1. “Primordial Black Holes Are True Vacuum Nurseries’’, A. Cheek, L. Heurtier, Y. F. Perez-Gonzalez, J. Turner, arXiv:2311.01869. Submitted to Phys.Rev.Lett.
2. “Extending preferred axion models via heavy-quark induced early matter domination’’, A. Cheek, J. K. Osinski, L. Roszkowski, arXiv:2310.16087. Submitted to JCAP.

Journal Publications:

1. “A direct detection view of the neutrino NSI landscape”, D.W.P. Amaral, D.G. Cerdeño, A. Cheek, P. Foldenauer, JHEP 07 (2023) 071.
2. “Isospin-violating dark matter at liquid noble detectors: new constraints, future projections, and an exploration of target complementarity”, A. Cheek, D. D. Price, E. M. Sandford, Eur.Phys.J.C 83 (2023) 10, 914.
3. “Evaporation of Primordial Black Holes in the Early Universe: Mass and Spin Distributions”, A. Cheek, L. Heurtier, Y. F. Perez-Gonzalez, J. Turner, Phys.Rev.D 108 (2023) 1, 015005.
4. “Towards detecting super-GeV dark matter via annihilation to neutrinos”, L. Salvador Miranda, S. Basegmez du Pree, K. C. Y. Ng, A. Cheek, C. Arina , JCAP 08 (2023) 006.
5. “Dark matter production through a non-thermal flavon portal”, A. Cheek, J. K. Osinski, L. Roszkowski, S. Trojanoski, JHEP 03 (2023) 149.
6. “Redshift Effects in Particle Production from Kerr Primordial Black Holes”, A. Cheek, L. Heurtier, Y. F. Perez-Gonzalez, J. Turner, Phys.Rev.D 106 (2022) 10, 103012.
7. “Primordial Black Hole Evaporation and Dark Matter Production: II. Interplay with the Freeze-In/Out Mechanism”, A. Cheek, L. Heurtier, Y. F. Perez-Gonzalez, J. Turner, Phys.Rev.D 105 (2022) 1, 015023. Editors Suggestion.
8. “Primordial Black Hole Evaporation and Dark Matter Production: I. Solely Hawking radiation”, A. Cheek, L. Heurtier, Y. F. Perez-Gonzalez, J. Turner, Phys.Rev.D 105 (2022) 1, 015022. Editors Suggestion.
9. “Confirming $U(1)_{L_{\mu}-L_{\tau}}$ as a solution for $(g-2)_\mu$ with neutrinos”, D.W.P. Amaral, D.G. Cerdeño, A. Cheek, P. Foldenauer, Eur. Phys. J. C81 (2021) 861.
10. “Robust Limits from Upcoming Neutrino Telescopes and Implications on Minimal Dark Matter Models”, S. Basegmez Du Pree, C. Arina, A. Cheek, A. Dekker, M. Chianese, S. Ando, JCAP 05 (2021) 054.
11. “Light and Darkness: consistently coupling dark matter to photons via effective operators”, C. Arina, A. Cheek, K. Mimasu, L. Pagani, Eur. Phys. J. C81 (2021) 3, 223
12. “The dark matter component of the Gaia radially anisotropic substructure”, N. Bozorgnia, A. Fattahi, C. S. Frenk, A. Cheek, D. G. Cerdeño, F. A. Gómez, R. J. J. Grand, F. Marinacci, JCAP 07 (2020) 036
13. “B anomalies and dark matter: a complex connection”, D. G. Cerdeño, A. Cheek, P. Martín-Ramiro and J. M. Moreno, Eur. Phys. J. C79 (2019) 517.
14. “Opening the energy window on direct dark matter detection”, N. Bozorgnia, D. G. Cerdeno, A. Cheek, B. Penning, JCAP 12 (2018) 013.
15. “Surrogate Models for Direct Dark Matter Detection”, D.G. Cerdeño, A. Cheek, E. Reid, H. Schulz, JCAP 08 (2018) 011.

Conference, Workshop talks and Poster Presentations by topic

• Main program or plenary talks: 14
• Parallel talks: 6
• Proceedings: 2
• Software tutorial: 1
• Poster presentations: 4

Primordial black hole evaporation and dark matter production:

• NEHOP 2023 (New Horizons in Primordial Black Hole Physics) in Naples, talk
• 19th MultiDark Consolider Workshop (2022) in Madrid, talk
• Kashiwa Dark Matter Symposium 2021 talk
• Dark Matter 2021 (Santander) talk

Dark matter production through a non-thermal flavon portal:

• 25th international Planck conference (2023) parallel talk

Neutrino physics in direct detection experiments:

• Neutriverse 2022 workshop talk
• IDM 2022 parallel talk
• TAUP 2021 poster and proceedings

Dark Matter Phenomenology in Neutrino Telescopes:

• ICRC 2021 parallel talk, discussion forum, and proceedings
• WIN2021 asynchronous (parallel) talk and panel member

Dark Matter effective interactions with photons:

• 3rd ICTP-SAIFR South American Dark Matter Workshop (2020) talk
• IRN Terascale Meeting (2020) talk
• Dark World to Swampland, IBS-IFT-MultiDark workshop plenary talk

Dark matter parameter reconstruction with direct detection and the use of surrogate models to efficiently sample parameter space:

• Invisibles workshop 2018 PhD forum talk
• Dark Matter UK meeting (2018) talk
• Dark Side of the Universe 2018 parallel talk
• Preparing for Dark Matter Particle Discovery (2018) talk
• MC4BSM (2018) talk, Unravelling the DM mystery (2018) RAPIDD code tutorial and talk
• 14th MultiDark Consolider Workshop (2017) talk
• YTF 9 poster and parallel talk

Invited Seminars

DAMTP, Cambridge University, UK (DEC 2023): The dynamic Universe of preferred axion models, see event page.

CP3, UCLouvain, Belgium (DEC 2023): The dynamic Universe of preferred axion models, see event page.

Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland (NOV 2023): Evaporating primordial black holes and BSM.

ICCUB, Barcelona (OCT 2023): The dynamic Universe of preferred axion models, see event page.

University of Warsaw, “Particle Theory and Cosmology” Seminar (Dec 2022): Primordial Black Hole Evaporation: implications for dark matter and dark radiation.

Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik Cosmology Seminar (Nov 2022): Primordial Black Hole Evaporation before BBN.

Technical University Munich Elementary Particle Physics Journal Club (Nov 2022): Primordial Black Hole Evaporation: implications for dark matter and dark radiation.

King’s College London TPPC seminar (Sep 2022): Primordial black hole evaporation and dark matter production.

Majorana-Raychaudhuri Seminars (Feb 2022): The Interplay Between Primordial Black Hole Evaporation and Dark Matter Production, seminar given virtually. See the seminar series website.

TTK, RWTH Aachen, Dark Matter Journal Club (Nov 2020): New insights into dark matter from EFT basics, seminar given virtually.

Bohr Lunch seminar (Feb 2020): Particle and Astrophysical implications for direct detection, seminar given at Manchester University Particle Physics group.

CP3 Seminar (Jan 2020): How stellar substructure in our galaxy changes our view of dark matter, seminar given at Université catholique de Louvain.

McDonald Institute seminar (Sep 2018): Making the most of Direct Detection, seminar given during a visit to Queen’s University, Canada. See McDonald Institute website.

IFT Astroparticle Journal club seminar (April 2017): How far can we push Dark Matter with Direct Detection?, talk given at IFT during a two-week visit.

Teaching and Outreach

Student Supervision/Co-supervision

• 2022/3 - Gian Marco Luchetti, Masters Student, University of Bologna.
• 2022 - Piotr Toczek, Masters Student, Warsaw University. Now PhD student at University of Warsaw.
• 2021 - Dorian W. P. Amaral, PhD Student, Durham University. Now postdoc at Rice University.
• 2020 - Veronika Fedotovs, Masters Student, University of Bologna.
• 2020 - Luca Pagani, PhD Student, University of Bologna.
• 2019 - Ellen Sandford, PhD Student, University of Manchester. Now postdoc in University of Liverpool.
• 2019 - Julia Sisk Reynes, Summer Student, University of Manchester.

Lecturing and Producing Teaching Materials

• Prepared and delivered a short 6 hour lecture course introducing dark matter particle physics for Masters students at UCLouvain (2020).
• Designed and delivered a 6 hour introduction to coding course for the Durham University Foundation program (2018).
• Was responsible for the Durham University physics foundation program’s problem-solving module, included producing all materials and weekly classes as well as an exam (2017-2019).

Tutoring

• Durham University level 1 Physics (MPhys) tutor for two small groups throughout the academic year (2016-2019).
• Durham University level 3 workshop demonstrator for Theoretical Physics module (2015-2016).
• Private physics and maths tutor (2014-2016).

Outreach Activities

• Scientific advisor to short film In the Dark (2021-2022).
• Producer of material for the 2021 INFIERI Summer school at IFT Madrid. Open the binder link for materials.
• Main organiser for modelling the invisible exhibit at the Royal Society, I was involved in every stage of the process, from application to the Royal Society to delivering the exhibit. Helped develop the software for the SuperCDMS replica and built and ran the website. I also undertook a day course in science communication at the Royal Society and gave a Seminar about it in Durham.
• Gave lecture on collider physics for the Particle Physics masterclass at Durham University (2018).
• Volunteer at Royal Society Summer exhibition ghosts in the universe.
• Volunteer at Green Man Festival for Quantum secrets of photosynthesis.

Positions of Responsibility

Referee in the Peer Review Process

I have acted as a referee for PRL, PRD, and JCAP.

Conference and Scientific Event Organizer

• Scientific committee member for NEHOP 2023.
• Main organizer for Modelling the Invisible exhibit at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition 2017.
• Main organizer for the YTF9 and YTF10 conferences.
• Organizer for Dark Matter from aeV to ZeV conference.
• Organizer for YETI 2019 workshop.

Committee Board Member

• Diversity and Equality Committee (2016-2017)
• Postgraduate Student Staff Consultative Committee (2016-2019).

Other Skills/Qualifications

Project Management

• AgilePM foundation and practitioner qualifications were obtained in 2021.
• Prince2 Foundation qualification obtained in March 2022.

Positions of responsibility

Referee in the peer review process: I have acted as a referee for PRD and JCAP.

Royal Society Summer Exhibition 2017: Main organiser for modelling the invisible exhibit at the Royal Society, I was involved in every stage of the process, from application to the Royal Society to delivering the exhibit. Helped develop the software for the SuperCDMS replica and built and ran the website. I also undertook a day course in science communication at the Royal Society and gave a Seminar about it in Durham.

Young Theorists Forum 9: Main organiser for local event for PhD students, designed the poster for the event, organised the registration and indico website. Decided on who to invite to be a plenary speaker. Assisted in writing funding applications and chaired sessions. See website YTF.

Dark Matter from aeV to ZeV: Organiser, ran one of the evening ‘cultural events’, the pub-quiz. Oversaw the audio-visual equipment in the conference room, ensuring all talks were ready before each session. See event.

Young Theorists Forum 10: Main organiser, oversaw the organisation of the event. Managed people on the committee ensuring the smooth running of the event and chaired sessions and ran the poster session, see website.

Diversity and Equality Committee (2016-2017): Reside on a Physics department committee which focuses on improving the work environment in the department to encourage those from any walk of life to flourish. In this role I organised a training event about workplace harassment and micro-aggression.

YETI 2019: On organising committee, helped choose theme for event and invited speakers. See event.

Postgraduate Student Staff Consultative Committee (2016-2019): Reside on a committee to make postgraduate students’ concerns and opinions known to members of staff within the Physics department.

Other skills

Coding: Experience developing my own software using python and C, using novel computational techniques to perform multidimensional parameter reconstructions, details in JCAP 1808 no. 011 (2018). Advanced knowledge of Python, C, bash, Linux, LaTeX, this includes data analysis packages such as pandas and scikit-learn. Experienced with Mathematica, CSS and html. Physics specific tools that I am familiar with include, FeynRules, FeynCalc, MadGraph, MadDM, MicrOMEGAS and AMUSE. Basic knowledge of ROOT, Julia and Fortran.

Languages: Native English speaker, intermediate level Spanish (Castellano), very basic French, Chinese Mandarin and British Sign Language.