Marcela Carena

Marcela Carena
Born
Citizenship
  • Argentina
  • Italy
  • United States
Alma materBalseiro Institute
University of Hamburg
Known forTheory and phenomenology of the Higgs boson, supersymmetry, and electroweak baryogenesis; quantum simulation for particle physics.
Scientific career
FieldsParticle physics
InstitutionsPerimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics; other affiliations: University of Chicago, Fermilab
Doctoral advisorRoberto 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.