Mary R. M. Bishai

Research and career In 1998, Bishai joined Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory as a research associate, where she was involved with Tevatron. She worked on quantum chromodynamics.

Bishai joined Brookhaven National Laboratory in 2004. She was hired to work on the MINOS experiment, a long baseline neutrino project. Her recommendations enabled the CD-0 decision from the United States Department of Energy (DOE) that enabled the Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment. She was part of the team who measured the J/psi meson cross sections at the Collider Detector at Fermilab. Her role as Project Scientist for the LBNE from 2012 to 2015 contributed to the formation of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) in 2015. Additionally, she has mentored students who visited Brookhaven as part of the African School of Physics program.

Bishai served as the co-spokesperson of Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) from January 2023 through March of 2025. As co-spokesperson, Bishai was responsible for leading the 1,400 member neutrino collaboration. DUNE will send the most intense neutrino beam in the world from Fermilab to the Sanford Underground Research Facility.