Luiz de Viveiros

Luiz de Viveiros is an Associate Professor of Physics at Pennsylvania State University, specializing in experimental particle astrophysics. His research focuses on dark matter detection using liquid xenon detectors (LUX-ZEPLIN collaboration) and neutrino mass measurement via cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy (Project 8). He leads the Dark Matter and Neutrino Mass Group at Penn State.

Education: B.S. in Physics and Philosophy from Clark University (2003), Ph.D. in Physics from Brown University (2009). Postdoctoral roles included University of California, Santa Barbara (2015–2017) and Portugal's LIP Lab (2009–2013). Awards include the 2018 DOE Early Career Award and FCT Portugal fellowship.

Research priorities include LZ's search for WIMPs and Project 8's measurement of tritium beta decay to determine neutrino mass. He pioneered calibration techniques in liquid xenon detectors and developed real-time data systems for CRES experiments.

• Key Projects: LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ), Project 8, KATRIN, XENON10
• Experimental Techniques: Liquid noble gas detectors, magnetic trapping, CRES
• Key Findings: First LZ dark matter constraints (2023), sub-keV nuclear recoil calibration

Labs/Teams: Collaborates internationally across LZ and Project 8 consortia, advising graduate students in detector physics and data analysis.