Dan Akerib joined KIPAC in 2014 with a full-time faculty appointment in Particle Physics & Astrophysics at SLAC and a courtesy appointment in the Physics Department. He has searched for WIMP dark matter particles since the early 1990s, first with the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search and more recently with the LUX and LUX-ZEPLIN projects. His current interests are in extending the sensitivity to dark matter through expanding and improving time projection chambers that use liquid xenon as a target medium. Together with Tom Shutt, he has led the establishment of a Liquid Nobles Test Platform at SLAC. The group specializes in detector development, xenon purification, and simulations, and has a broad range of opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students to participate in hardware and software development, as well as data analysis. Career History: - AB 1984, University of Chicago - Ph.D. 1990 Princeton University - Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 1990 - 1992 - Center Fellow, Center for Particle Astrophysics, UC Berkeley 1993 - 1996 - Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University, 1995-2001 - Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University, 2001-2004 - Professor, Case Western Reserve University, 2004-2014 - Chair, Case Western Reserve University, 2007-2010 - Professor, Particle Physics & Astrophysics, SLAC 2014 - present