Lindley Winslow

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Lindley Winslow
Alma mater University of California at Berkeley
Scientific career
Fields Nuclear physics, particle physics
Institutions MIT, University of California, Los Angeles
Thesis  (2008)
Website physics.mit.edu/faculty/lindley-winslow/

Lindley Winslow is an experimental nuclear and particle physicist, and associate professor at MIT.

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Biography

Winslow grew up in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. [1]

Winslow completed her BA in physics in 2001 and her PhD in 2008 at University of California at Berkeley, before doing a postdoc at MIT. She was an assistant professor at University of California, Los Angeles before moving back to MIT in 2015, where she works on the search for dark matter. [2] [3]

In 2016, Winslow was consulted on the equations in the Ghostbusters reboot film. [4] [5]

In 2018, Winslow established a grant programme especially for women physicists. [6]

Awards and honours

Selected publications

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