Lisa Randall studies particle physics and cosmology at Harvard University, where she is a professor of physics. Her research concerns the fundamental nature of particles and forces and the relationships among matter’s most basic elements. In addition to her most recent work involving extra dimensions, Lisa Randall has made seminal contributions in a wide variety physics including cosmological inflation, supersymmetry, grand unified theories, and aspects of string theory. As of last autumn, she was the most cited theoretical physicist in the world during the previous five years. Lisa Randall earned her PhD from Harvard University and held professorships at MIT and Princeton University before returning to Harvard in 2001. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Physical Society, and is a past winner of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, a DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award, and the Westinghouse (now Intel) Science Talent Search. In 2003, she received the Premio Caterina Tomassoni e Felice Pietro Chisesi Award, presented at the University of Rome, La Sapienza. In 2006, she will receive the Klopsted Award from the American Society of Physics Teachers (AAPT).
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