Lisa Randall

Professor Lisa Randall is an American theoretical physicist and the Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science on the physics faculty at Harvard University. She studies theoretical particle physics and cosmology at Harvard University. Her research connects theoretical insights to puzzles in our current understanding of the properties and interactions of matter. She has developed and studied a wide variety of models to address these questions, the most prominent involving extra dimensions of space. Her work has involved improving our under-standing of the Standard Model of particle physics, supersymmetry, baryogenesis, cosmological inflation, and dark matter. Randall’s research also explores ways to experimentally test and verify ideas and her current research focuses in large part on the Large Hadron Collider and dark matter searches and models. One of her best-known contributions is the Randall-Sundrum model, first published in 1999 with Raman Sundrum.