Mariangela Lisanti

Mariangela Lisanti (born September 2, 1983) is an American theoretical physicist and a professor of physics at Princeton University. Her work focuses on understanding dark matter and dark energy using tools developed through artificial intelligence.

Biography Mariangela Lisanti was born in 1983 to Anna and Anthony Lisanti, who had immigrated to the United States from Italy. and later attended Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut. During her internship, she designed and built a device to measure single-atom conductance across a nanowire; the materials cost $35. She won the Siemens Competition national finals in 2000 with the device she built at Yale and her research on quantum mechanics. and in 2014 she co-authored a paper predicting the times of year when dark matter particle density is greatest. She was a 2013 regional finalist in the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists. In May 2021, Lisanti and her team received funding from the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund to build new tools using AI to support the search for new physical laws applying to dark matter and dark energy.