[5] Schutz attended MIT, where she did research with Max Tegmark,[6] David Kaiser,[7] and Tracy Slatyer.
[4] She completed her thesis in 2019, titled "Searching for the invisible: how dark forces shape our Universe.
For example, her research asks whether such dark matter particles might experience new forces outside of the Standard Model, and how we might detect such interactions.
In particular, such particles would interact with standard matter via gravity, and such interactions may provide a "gravitational portal between dark and visible matter" that we can observe via astronomy, e.g. stars and galaxies, including nearby dwarf galaxies and the Milky Way itself, and also large-scale cosmological structures, such as the CMB, the Lyman-alpha forest, and the cosmological 21 cm line.
[20] She and her colleagues also simulate galactic halos,[21] and have used data from Gaia to observationally constrained the existence of a dark matter disk in the Milky Way.