Rate My Professor Pearl Sandick

Pearl Sandick is the Dean of the College of Science and a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Utah. She earned her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Minnesota in 2008 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Theory Group at the University of Texas at Austin prior to joining the University of Utah as an Assistant Professor in 2011. She advanced to Associate Professor and subsequently to Full Professor. Sandick served as Associate Dean for Faculty and Research in the College of Science starting in 2022, was appointed Interim Dean in March 2025, and became the permanent Dean effective February 2026. Her research centers on theoretical particle physics, with a focus on physics beyond the Standard Model and dark matter phenomenology. This includes investigations into indirect detection signatures, cosmological impacts of dark matter candidates, gamma-ray backgrounds, dwarf satellite galaxies, and interactions with black holes and primordial structures.