{"id":126,"date":"2025-02-25T10:28:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T15:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/quantum\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=126"},"modified":"2025-03-05T13:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T18:23:16","slug":"mark-boulay","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/quantum\/people\/mark-boulay\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Boulay"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Boulay is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca\/chairholders-titulaires\/profile-eng.aspx?profileId=3730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Canada Research Chair in Particle Astrophysics (Tier I)<\/a>. His research revolves around the search for dark matter, routinely ranked as one of the top three mysteries in fundamental science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His research focus is designing and building detectors to try to directly observe an interaction of one of these particles for the first time. Currently using the DEAP-3600 detector at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snolab.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Laboratory (SNOLAB)<\/a>, an underground science facility, Professor Boulay and his team continue to search for a single interaction of one dark matter particle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":271,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Mark","cu_people_last_name":"Boulay","cu_people_initials":"MB","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[26],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-126","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-physics-experimental"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Professor, Department of Physics","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"mark.boulay@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/quantum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/quantum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/quantum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/quantum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/quantum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/quantum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/126\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/quantum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/quantum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/quantum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/quantum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}