I am an Associate Professor at 蚕耻别别苍鈥檚 University. Prior to my current positions at 蚕耻别别苍鈥檚, the , and , I held postdoctoral fellowships at Perimeter and the University of Notre Dame. My PhD was completed at the University of Hawaii. As an undergraduate at Sarah Lawrence College, I researched atmospheric aerosol particle chemistry, using x-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy, which I collected and analyzed at Brookhaven鈥檚 National Synchrotron Light Source.
Research Summary: Theoretical physics is presently confronting exciting puzzles, including the nature of dark matter, the state of our universe prior to primordial nucleosynthesis, and the present abundance of matter as compared to antimatter. It is also interesting to consider whether the mass of the Higgs boson relative to the Planck mass, the cosmological constant, and the charge-parity symmetry of quantum chromodynamics are manifestations of more fundamental physical structures. My research seeks out new explanations for these phenomena and fashions new methods to test such explanations.
Publications Summary: An up-to-date list of my publications can be found
Contact: joseph.bramante {at} queensu.ca
Prospective Students: All prospective students and researchers are welcome to email me at the address given above or apply directly to 蚕耻别别苍鈥檚 and indicate particle theory as an interest. I can often reply to direct email inquiries if there is an opening in our theory group.