Janet Conrad

Janet Marie Conrad (born October 23, 1963 in Wooster , Ohio ) is an American physicist and researcher. She is professor of elementary particle physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and researches in neutrino physics .

life and work

Conrad received a bachelor's degree in physics from Swarthmore College in 1985 and an M.Sc. in high energy physics from Oxford University . She received her PhD in high energy physics from Harvard University in 1993 . She then did research as a postdoctoral fellow at Nevis Laboratories at Columbia University and in 1995 moved to the Columbia Physics department as an assistant professor.

In 1999 she was hired as an associate professor at Columbia University and in 2006 she was promoted to Walter O. Lecroy Professor. In 2008 she moved to the Department of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a professor.

Conrad is married to the physicist Vassili Papavassiliou , who is a professor at New Mexico State University. She is the niece of Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, William Lipscomb .

Awards (selection)

1986–1987: Keasbey Foundation Fellowship
1988: Harvard Physics Department (KT Bainbridge) Award
1991–1992: AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship
1996: NSF Career Advancement Award
1996: DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award
1998: NSF CAREER Award
1999: Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
2000: Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
2001: Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award from the American Physical Society
2001: The New York City Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology, Young Investigator
2003: Fellow of the American Physical Society
2005: Columbia Distinguished Faculty Fellow
2009: Guggenheim Fellow
2013: American Physical Society CSWP Woman Physicist of the Month
2014: Amar G. Bose Fellowship

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personal data
SURNAME	Conrad, Janet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Conrad, Janet Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American physicist and researcher
DATE OF BIRTH	October 23, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wooster , Ohio