Rate My Professor Gary Hill

Associate Professor Gary Hill is an astroparticle physicist in the School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences, College of Sciences, at the University of Adelaide. A graduate of the University of Adelaide, he spent 14 years conducting research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before returning to Australia in 2010 as an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow in the School of Chemistry and Physics. He was promoted to Associate Professor and continues to lead research in high-energy astrophysics.

Hill's academic interests center on neutrinos, cosmic rays, gamma rays, and dark matter. He is a core member of the IceCube Collaboration, operating the world's largest neutrino telescope at the South Pole, where he has contributed to pivotal discoveries including the first observation of PeV-energy neutrinos and evidence for astrophysical neutrino sources such as the active galaxy NGC 1068. Notable publications include 'First observation of PeV-energy neutrinos with IceCube' (Physical Review Letters, 111, 021103, 2013), 'Measurement of the cosmic ray energy spectrum with IceTop-73' (Physical Review D, 88, 042004, 2013), 'An absence of neutrinos associated with cosmic-ray acceleration in γ-ray bursts' (Nature, 484, 351–354, 2012), and 'Search for dark matter annihilations in the sun with the 79-string IceCube detector' (Physical Review Letters, 110, 131302, 2013). Hill also advances cosmic ray studies through the Pierre Auger Observatory and dark matter detection via the SABRE experiment in Stawell, Victoria. He has secured multiple ARC Discovery Project grants, such as DP130103971 (2013), DP150101622 (2015), and DP210104031 (2021), supporting innovative detector technologies and data analysis for multi-messenger astronomy.