Daine Danielson

Daine Danielson’s research interests include quantum gravity, quantum field theory in curved spacetime, quantum information theory, and black holes. His recent work has focused on gravitationally mediated entanglement and decoherence, infrared symmetries and memory effects in quantum field theory and gravity, and theoretical aspects of laboratory probes of quantum gravity. This line of inquiry has recently given rise to the discovery that a black hole, and the cosmological horizon, exerts a universal rate of decoherence on all quantum superpositions in its vicinity. Outside his interests in black holes, Daine is actively engaged with issues related to nuclear nonproliferation, including through his work at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Daine is a BHI Fellow at Harvard University, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics; he is also a Hertz Fellow.

Ph.D. and M.S. Physics (UChicago); B.S. Computational Physics m. Mathematics (UC Davis)