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Tracy Slatyer is a theoretical physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she serves as a professor in the Physics Department and as the director of the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics. Her research specializes in dark matter, focusing on theoretical models, predictable signals, and the analysis of astrophysical and cosmological datasets. She has made significant contributions to our understanding of particle physics and cosmology, particularly investigating the fundamental interactions of dark matter. Slatyer has co-discovered the giant gamma-ray structures known as the 'Fermi Bubbles', which erupt from the center of the Milky Way. Born in the Solomon Islands and raised in Australia and Fiji, Slatyer received her undergraduate degree with honors in theoretical physics from the Australian National University in 2005. She completed her doctoral studies at Harvard University in 2010, where her research was guided by Prof. Douglas Finkbeiner. Following her PhD, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from 2010 to 2013, before joining the MIT Physics Department as a junior faculty member in July 2013. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2018 and received tenure in 2019.