Nicole Bell (scientist)

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Nicole F. Bell
Born1975 (age 4849)
Alma mater University of Melbourne
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Melbourne
California Institute of Technology
Fermilab
Thesis Neutrino oscillations and the early universe  (2000)
Website https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/nicole-bell/

Nicole F. Bell (born 1975) is an Australian physicist who is a professor at the University of Melbourne. She is a theoretical physicist who works on dark matter, neutrino physics, and other topics in particle and astroparticle theory. [1]

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Bell is president of the Australian Institute of Physics. She was awarded the 2020 Australian Academy of Science Nancy Millis Medal for her work on dark matter and particle theory.

Education and career

Bell is from Australia. She earned her doctorate at the University of Melbourne with thesis research on neutrino oscillations and the early universe. [2] After earning her doctorate, Bell moved to the United States and joined the Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics as a research fellow. After three years at Fermilab, Bell was awarded a Sherman Fairchild Prize Fellowship at the California Institute of Technology. [3]

Bell returned to the University of Melbourne in 2007. [4] In 2011, she became a Chief Investigator of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale, and in 2020, the Theory Program leader of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics. [3]

In 2021 Bell was elected vice president of the Australian Institute of Physics. [4] Bell became president of the Australian Institute of Physics in 2023. [5]

Awards and honours

Personal life

Bell has three children.[ citation needed ]

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