Mariangela Lisanti is an American theoretical physicist and assistant professor of physics at Princeton University.
Background
Mariangela Lisanti was born in 1983 to Anna and Anthony Lisanti, who had immigrated to the United States from Italy. She grew up in Pelham Gardens, a neighborhood in The Bronx, New York, and later attended Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut.
Education
In the summer after her junior year of high school, she completed an internship with Mark Reed, a professor of physics at Yale University.
Career
During her internship, she designed and built a device to measure single-atom conductance across a nanowire. The materials cost $35. Lisanti completed her bachelor"s degree in condensed matter physics at Harvard University and studied a Doctor of Philosophy in high-energy physics at Stanford University.
In 2010, she joined the Princeton University Center for Theoretical Science as an associate research scholar, and became an assistant professor in 2013.
She has encouraged the use of simplified search strategy models in the observation of new particles from collider data, an approach that was consequently adopted by groups using the Large Hadron Collider. She has also described theoretical models concerning dark matter, and in 2014 she co-authored a paper predicting the times of year when dark matter particle density is greatest.
She was a 2013 regional finalist in the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.
Views
Her best-known research has been on the phenomenology of collider physics.