Meenakshi Narain

Meenakshi Narain is an experimental physicist, Professor of Physics at Brown University,[1] and Chair of the Collaboration Board of U.S. institutions in the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Collaboration.[2][3] She was involved in the discovery of the top quark in 1995 and Higgs Boson in 2012.[4][5]

Meenakshi Narain
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
InstitutionsBrown University

Narain received a B.Sc. from Gorakhpur University and a M.Sc. from IIT Kanpur before completing her Ph.D. at Stony Brook University under the supervision of Juliet Lee-Franzini.[6] After receiving her Ph.D. she was appointed to the position of Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and in 1995 was named a FNL Wilson Fellow.

She taught at Boston University and joined the Brown University faculty in 2007.[7] Since 2007, she has been an elected fellow of the American Physical Society.

Narain is a frequent critic of bias against women in STEM fields.[8]

References
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