Persis Drell
Director
Persis S. Drell is Professor and Director at SLAC. She received
her B.A. in mathematics and physics from Wellesley College in 1977. She
received her Ph.D. in atomic physics from the University of California,
Berkeley, in 1983. She then switched to high-energy experimental physics
and worked as a postdoctoral scientist with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
She joined the faculty of the Physics Department at Cornell University in
1988. In 2000, she became head of the Cornell high-energy group; in 2001,
she was named deputy director of Cornell’s Laboratory of Nuclear Studies.
In 2002, Dr. Drell accepted a position as Professor and Director of Research
at SLAC. Her current research activities are in particle astrophysics. She
has recently been working with the GLAST project as Deputy Project Manager.
Dr. Drell has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National
Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award and she is a fellow
of the American Physical Society.
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