Sridhara Dasu

Sridhara Dasu is a Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, affiliated with the Department of Physics and the High Energy Physics group. His primary research focus is experimental particle physics, with contributions to the CMS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). He has played a key role in the discovery of the Higgs boson and ongoing studies of its properties, as well as searches for dark matter and new physics beyond the Standard Model. Dasu has also been instrumental in designing future collider projects, including the Muon Collider and Linear Collider Facility.

Education: PhD in Physics from the University of Rochester (1988–1992), postdoctoral research at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (1983–1988). He previously contributed to the BaBar experiment at SLAC, the ZEUS experiment at DESY, and the SLD experiment at SLAC.

Research Interests: Fundamental particle interactions, high-energy collider physics, detector development for CMS, and advancing compact lepton colliders. His work combines experimental data analysis with theoretical interpretations to probe unresolved questions in particle physics, such as the nature of dark matter and the Higgs mechanism.

Administration & Teaching: Served as Chair of the UW-Madison Physics Department from 2018–2021, overseeing faculty hiring, graduate student support, and computing infrastructure. Teaches courses including Particle Physics (Physics 535/735), Computational Physics (Physics 433), and undergraduate seminars.

Collaborations: Active member of the CMS Collaboration, BaBar Collaboration, and International Muon Collider Collaboration. His group operates the UW Tier-2 computing center supporting CMS data analysis.