Elisabetta Barberio

Centre Director

With a strong background in particle physics research, and significant leadership experience in international experiments at major international particle physics laboratories, Prof. Barberio aims to place the Centre- and Australia- in a leading position in the search to answer fundamental questions as to the nature of dark matter.

Elisabetta is a member of the Experimental Particle Physics Group at the University of Melbourne. Previously, she was a staff researcher at CERN, the European laboratory of Particle Physics.

She was involved with data analysis in the OPAL experiment at Large Electron Positron Collider at CERN. Precision measurements made at this collider have confirmed the theory describing the fundamental particle behaviour to an extraordinary degree of precision.

As Centre Director, she will be responsible for the Centre’s overall strategic direction and operations, with advice from the relevant Centre committees.

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Home institution: University of Melbourne.
Research Theme: Direct Detection & Large Hadron Collider.
Leader of the Research Committee
Contact: barberio@unimelb.edu.au