Lisa Randall
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Lisa Randall
Lisa Randall at TED
Born
June 18, 1962 (age 54)
Queens, New York City,United States
Residence
Massachusetts, United States
Nationality
American
Fields
Physics
Institutions
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
University of California, Berkeley
Princeton University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard University
Alma mater
Stuyvesant High School
Harvard University
Doctoral advisor
Howard Georgi
Doctoral students
Csaba Csáki, Eric Sather, Witold Skiba, Shu-fang Su, Emanuel Katz, Matthew Schwartz, Shiyamala Thambyahpillai, Liam Fitzpatrick, David Simmons-Duffin, Brian Shuve
Known for
Randall–Sundrum model
Warped Passages
Notable awards
Klopsteg Memorial Award(2006)
Lilienfeld Prize (2007)
Andrew Gemant Award (2012)
Lisa Randall (born June 18, 1962) is an American theoretical physicist and an expert on particle physics andcosmology. She is the Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science on the physics faculty of Harvard University.[1] Her research includes elementary particles and fundamental forces and she has developed and studied a wide variety of models, the most recent involving extra dimensions of space. She has advanced the understanding and testing of theStandard Model, supersymmetry, possible solutions to the hierarchy problem concerning the relative weakness of gravity, cosmology of extra dimensions, baryogenesis, cosmological inflation, and dark matter.[2] Her best-known contribution is the Randall–Sundrum model, first published in 1999 with Raman Sundrum.[3]