Lisa Randall (Harvard University) is visiting us

Professor Lisa Randall is visiting the IFT for the period April 30 to May 11, 2025. Her office number is 209.

Her research addresses fundamental questions about the properties and interactions of matter, including work on extra dimensions, the Standard Model, supersymmetry, baryogenesis, cosmological inflation, and dark matter. She has also contributed to developing experimental tests for theoretical models, focusing particularly on the Large Hadron Collider and dark matter searches.

Professor Randall is among the most cited and influential theoretical physicists and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has received numerous honors, including the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award, and the Julius Lilienfeld Prize for both her scientific contributions and science communication efforts.

Beyond academia, she has reached broad audiences through her books Warped Passages and Knocking on Heaven’s Door, both named among The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of the Year. She has also been recognized in media outlets such as Time Magazine’s "100 Most Influential People" and Rolling Stone's 40th Anniversary issue.

Professor Randall earned her PhD from Harvard University and previously held professorships at MIT and Princeton before returning to Harvard in 2001.