Kerstin Perez

Kerstin Perez is an associate professor of Particle Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is interested in physics beyond the standard model. She leads the silicon detector program for the General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) and the high-energy X-ray analysis community for the NuSTAR telescope array.

Early life and education Perez was born and raised in West Philadelphia. She moved to the California Institute of Technology for her graduate studies, earning a master's in 2008 and a PhD in 2011. F. Rogers, et al., F. Rogers, et al., "Large-area Si(Li) detectors for X-ray spectrometry and particle tracking in the GAPS experiment," JINST, 14, 10 (2019).

Awards and honors 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship