Prof. Marcela Carena receives Humboldt Research Award and comes to Mainz
The renowned theoretical physicist Marcela Carena comes to Mainz with the support of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, in order to continue her research together with her scientific host Prof. Matthias Neubert (THEP) in Germany.
Prof. Carena, who originates from Argentina, completed her PhD in Germany at DESY in 1989. She has been a researcher at Fermilab (near Chicago, USA) since 1998 and a professor at the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago. With Lisa Randall (Harvard), Carena is a leading female physicist in theoretical high energy physics and electroweak symmetry breaking. Carena’s scientific papers span an impressive range of topics and have been highly cited. She has particularly worked on possible extensions of the standard model in particle physics, on the explanation of matter-anti matter asymmetry of the universe, and on the origin of dark matter.
Prof. Carena ranks among the worldwide leading experts in the physics of the Higgs Boson and in the field of supersymmetric extensions of the standard model. An important topic in her work is the search for new particles at particle accelerators such as Tevatron at Fermilab near Chicago and the large hadron collider at CERN in Geneva. Besides supersymmetry Prof. Carena has researched intensively on models which include extra spatial dimensions in addition to the three dimensions we are familiar with.
Research awards by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation support long-term research projects of about 70 top scientists from all over the world to Germany every year.
Find more information on the Fermilab Today newsletter (as of Feb 11, 2011): http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today