Head of School for Physics, University of Sydney
I am an astroparticle physicist who worked both in cosmology/astrophysics and particle physics.
I obtained my PhD in 2001 at Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris on the impact of dark matter microphysics on the formation of large-scale-structures in the universe.
After a fellowship in Oxford and another at CERN, I was awarded a research position at CNRS in Annecy, where I stayed for a few years before moving to Durham University in 2011.
In 2018 I joined the University of Sydney as only the second woman to be Head of School for Physics in the school's history.
And then there were three: finally, another woman awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics
Oct 04, 2018 15:17 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
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