Dr. Mariangela Lisanti

Biography

Mariangela Lisanti is a professor of physics at Princeton University and a research scientist at the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute. As an astroparticle theorist, she leads a research group at Princeton focused on understanding the nature of dark matter. Lisanti earned her B.S. from Harvard University, graduating summa cum laude in 2005, and completed her Ph.D. at Stanford University in 2010. She joined the faculty of the Department of Physics at Princeton in 2013. In addition to her teaching and research responsibilities, she is a faculty fellow at the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science and a participating faculty member at the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning. Over the years, Lisanti has received several prestigious awards and honors, including the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University and the Simons Investigator Award from the Simons Foundation. She is currently the chair of Princeton Physics Department’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Initiative.

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