FACULTY AWARD: Lisanti named 2017 Cottrell Scholar

By the Office of Communications on Feb. 22, 2017, 1 p.m.

Mariangela Lisanti, a Princeton University assistant professor of physics, was among 24 early-career scientists nationwide to be named a 2017 Cottrell Scholar by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. Lisanti received the $100,000 award for her project, "Confronting the Dark Matter Paradigm: New Approaches for Direct and Indirect Detection."

Mariangela Lisanti's science career started in high school in Connecticut when she cold-called physics professors asking for the chance to do research in their labs. Her persistence and enthusiasm paid off, and her work led her in 2002 to be named one of MIT Tech Review's "top innovators under 35" — at only 18 years old. In 2013, Lisanti joined the Princeton faculty as an assistant professor of physics.

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