Prof. Meenakshi Narain (She/Her): Season 2 Episode 7

<p>Season 2 Episode 7</p> <p>I am an Asian-Indian American Physicist, who traveled from Gorakhpur, UP, India and finally settled in Providence, RI USA, with my German husband and two sons. I am passionate about cooking and organizing events which meld scientific concepts with arts and music. My research focuses on investigating the early universe moments after the Big Bang created in small and large particle colliders, by building &nbsp;innovative scientific instruments (detectors) to explore and find &nbsp;fundamental particles and their interactions, and through these experiments unravel mysteries such as the origin of matter, the types of matter in the universe and many more. I love my research, as it gives me a purpose, and gives me an &nbsp;opportunity to forge an inclusive partnership with a diverse set of &nbsp;researchers who help me connect with the &nbsp;age-old quest of humankind to &nbsp;understand where we come from, why we are here, and eventually visualize &nbsp;the building blocks of our home, the universe! I am humbled to have been chosen as one of the leaders of the Energy &nbsp;Frontier group of the broader Snowmass study to help formulate a &nbsp;community wide vision to explore the TeV energy scale and beyond with &nbsp;future collider options, which will define the landscape of experimental &nbsp;opportunities over multiple decades [and late into this century].</p> <p>https://vivo.brown.edu/display/mnarain</p> <p><br></p> <p>My Journey as a Physicist is brought to you by PhD student <a href="https://perl.natsci.msu.edu/people/graduate-students/bryan-stanley/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bryan Stanley</a> (he/him/his) and Prof. <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.pa.msu.edu%2Fpeople%2Fhwlin%2F&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNHKpswHb14HhBLArZNZxdgSumIxoA" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Huey-Wen Lin</a> (she/her). Season 2 is edited by Varalee Sakorikar.</p> <p>Season 2 consists of members of the Particle Physics Community Planning Exercise