Meenakshi Narain
Biography
Professor Meenakshi Narain earned her Ph.D. in Physics from the State University of New York, Stony Brook. She had an Sc.B. degree from Gorakhpur University in India and an Sc.M. in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. In 2012, she was elected a Fellow of the LHC Physics Center at Fermilab, where she served as Coordinator promoting collaboration with colleagues from South America, Europe, India, and Iran. In 2000 she earned an Outstanding Junior Investigator Award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award
Professor Narain joined the Brown University Department of Physics faculty in 2007 and was the first woman to chair the department beginning on July 1, 2022.
Research
Professor Narain was deeply involved with the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and the DØ experiment at Fermilab. She was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2007. A prominent high energy experimentalist, Professor Narain was deeply involved with the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and the DØ experiment at Fermilab. She conducted pioneering research on the Higgs boson and other fundamental particles and spearheaded a multidisciplinary effort to bring advanced quantum sensing and quantum computing techniques to high energy physics. She was instrumental in discovering the top quark, the heaviest fundamental particle, in 1995.
Publications
Professor Narain authored or co-authored over 850 articles in leading physics journals.