Woman on Top: Lisa Randall

Lisa Randall

Professor of Physics

Department of Physics, Harvard University

• Born on 18 June 1962.
• Obtained her BA in Physics from Harvard University in June 1983 and immediately proceeded to the PhD programme.
• First taught classes at the Harvard University Physics Department as a Teaching Assistant in 1984.
• Obtained her PhD in Physics from Harvard University in June 1987, specialising in particle physics.
• Named Associate Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1995, being the first tenured female theoretical physicist in MIT. 
• Transferred to Princeton University in 1998 as Professor of Physics, becoming the first tenured woman in the university's Physics Department.
• Returned to Harvard University in 2001 as Professor of Physics, making her the first tenured female theoretical phycisist in Harvard.
• Received the Premio Caterina Tomassoni e Felice Pietro Chisesi Award from the University of Rome, La Sapienza in 2003. 
• Published Warped Passages: Unraveling The Mysteries Of The Universe's Hidden Dimensions in 2005, which was cited by the New York Times as one of the 100 most notable books in 2005.
• Won the Julius Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society in 2007 for her work in particle physics.
• Named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in 2007.
• Her image dispersion has been known to cause the momentary collapse of heartwave functions.