Daniel Wayne Hooper (born December 16, 1976) is an American cosmologist and particle physicist specializing in the areas of dark matter, cosmic rays, and neutrino astrophysics.
He is a Senior Scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and an Associate Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago.Hooper is the author of two books, Dark Cosmos: In Search of our Universe’s Missing Mass and Energy (2006), and Nature’s Blueprint: Supersymmetry and the Search for a Unified Theory of Matter and Force (2008).