Marcela Carena
Marcela Carena | |
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| Alma mater | Balseiro Institute University of Hamburg |
| Known for | Theory and phenomenology of the Higgs boson, supersymmetry, and electroweak baryogenesis; quantum simulation for particle physics. |
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| Fields | Particle physics |
| Institutions | Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics; other affiliations: University of Chicago, Fermilab |
| Doctoral advisor | Roberto Peccei |
Marcela Silvia Carena Lopez is an Argentine theoretical physicist, and since November 2024 the executive director of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, ON, Canada. Prior to taking this position she was a Distinguished Scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, where she was Director of the lab's Theory Division. She is also a professor at the University of Chicago, where she is a member of the Enrico Fermi Institute and the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics.