Maria Spiropulu
Maria Spiropulu born in Kastoria, West Macedonia, Greece, is an experimental physicist at the California Institute of Technology. She is a member of the CMS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider.
Maria Spiropulu received her Bachelor’s degree in physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1993, and obtained her PhD with the CDF experiment from Harvard University in 2000.[1] For her doctoral thesis, Spiropulu applied a novel double blind analysis method to search for evidence of supersymmetry.[2]
From 2001 to 2003, Spiropulu continued on the CDF experiment as an Enrico Fermi fellow at the University of Chicago, using signatures of missing transverse energy to search for extra dimensions and supersymmetry. In 2004, Spiropulu moved to CERN as a research scientist with the CMS experiment. For the years 2005 to 2008, she served as co-convener of the CMS physics analysis group searching for supersymmetry and other phenomena beyond the Standard Model. Spiropulu was a senior research physicist at CERN until 2012, and has been a professor at the California Institute of Technology since 2009.[1]
Spiropulu is the author of "Where is Einstein?", the final chapter in "My Einstein: Essays by Twenty-four of the World's Leading Thinkers on the Man, His Work, and His Legacy" [3]
Awards
In 2008, Spiropulu was elected[4] as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, "for her leadership in experimental high-energy physics, in particular for her pioneering efforts in the experimental search for supersymmetry and extra dimensions."[1]
References
- ^ a b c "Professor Spiropulu's website at Caltech". Retrieved 09 March 2013.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ Spiropulu, Maria (2000). A blind search for supersymmetry in p(bar)p collisions at sqr(s) = 1.8 TeV using the missing energy plus multijet channel (Ph.D.). Harvard University.
- ^ Brockman, J. (editor), Pantheon 2006
- ^ "News Archives of the American Association for the Advancement of Science".
External links
- Spiropulu's personal page at Caltech
- Spiropulu on Twitter
- Spiropulu on Facebook
- "SCIENTIST AT WORK -- Maria Spiropulu; Other Dimensions? She's in Pursuit" - from The New York Times, September 30, 2003
- "University of Chicago particle physicist Maria Spiropulu is a body in motion" - from The Chicago Tribune, July 11, 2002
- Physics of the Universe Summit
- In search of extra dimensions
- Maria Spiropulu's Edge Bio Page
- Maria Spiropulu on CMSExperimentTV
- CMS Shift Leader, first collisions at world record energy
- Video of Spiropulu's lecture The Universe in Collisions at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, May 13, 2009.