Physics

Biography

Glennys R. Farrar is a Collegiate Professor of Physics and Julius Silver, Rosalind S. Silver and Enid Silver Winslow Professor at New York University. She received her B.A. in Physics from the University of California (Berkeley) in 1967 and Ph. D. in Physics from Princeton University in 1971, the first woman to do so. She was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1971-1973, then Research Scientist at Caltech from 1973-1974. She was promoted to Assistant Professor at Caltech in 1974, but was converted to Senior Research Scientist in 1977, being told that was necessary to avoid that she would come up for tenure review. She joined the faculty of Rutgers University in 1979, then moved to NYU in 1998 to be Chair of the Physics Department . In 2001 she founded the Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics and served as its Director for seven years. Farrar is a recent Chair of the Division of Astrophysics of the American Physical Society and was a member of the Snowmass 2021 Steering Committee and has been a long-time editor of the Journal of Cosmology and Particle Physics. She is a Fellow of APS and AAAS; received Sloan, Guggenheim and Simons Fellowships; serves on advisory panels for NASA, NSF and the European Research Council. She is a member of the (U.S.) National Academy of Sciences.

Research Interest

Theoretical Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology