Lisa Randall

Lisa Randall
Born (1962-06-18) June 18, 1962 (age 62)
Alma materHarvard University (BA, PhD)
Known forRandall–Sundrum model
Warped Passages (2005)
AwardsKlopsteg Memorial Award (2006)
Lilienfeld Prize (2007)
Andrew Gemant Award (2012)
Sakurai Prize (2019)
Oskar Klein Medal (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsLawrence Berkeley Laboratory
University of California, Berkeley
Princeton University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard University
Doctoral advisorHoward Georgi
Doctoral studentsCsaba Csáki

Lisa Randall HonFInstP (born June 18, 1962) is an American theoretical physicist and Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University.[1] Her research includes the fundamental forces of nature and dimensions of space. She studies the Standard Model, supersymmetry, possible solutions to the hierarchy problem concerning the relative weakness of gravity, cosmology of dimensions, baryogenesis, cosmological inflation, and dark matter.[2] She contributed to the Randall–Sundrum model, first published in 1999 with Raman Sundrum.[3]

  1. ^ "Faculty: Lisa Randall". Harvard University Department of Physics. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  2. ^ "Lisa Randall". NAS. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
  3. ^ Randall, Lisa; Sundrum, Raman (1999). "Large Mass Hierarchy from a Small Extra Dimension". Physical Review Letters. 83 (17): 3370–3373. arXiv:hep-ph/9905221. Bibcode:1999PhRvL..83.3370R. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.3370.

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