Maria spiropulu biography

Greek physicist

Maria Spiropulu (; Greek: Μαρία Σπυροπούλου) is a Greek particle physicist. She is the Shang-Yi Ch'en Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology.

Biography

Maria Spiropulu received her bachelor's degree in physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1993, and obtained her PhD with the CDF experiment from Harvard University in 2000.^[1] For her doctoral thesis, she applied for the first time in hadron colliders a novel double blind analysis method to search for evidence of supersymmetry.^[2] She excluded a large part of the parameter space where supersymmetric particles were expected to emerge.^[3]

From 2001 to 2003, Spiropulu continued the CDF experiment as an Enrico Fermi fellow at the University of Chicago, using signatures of missing transverse energy to search for extra dimensions and supersymmetry.

In 2004, she moved to CERN as a research scientist with the CMS experiment. Fr