Graduate Student
Barbara is a graduate student in the Physics Department at Columbia. Before moving to New York, she got her B.S. in Physics at Yale and spent a gap year at MIT's LIGO lab. As an undergrad, she spent a summer at CERN and did research in atomic physics for two years. At Columbia, she’s been part of the Physics Graduate Council and of Spectra, a student organization to promote diversity in physics. She is also a Next-Generation Fellow of APS's Physicists Coalition working on nuclear threat reduction advocacy. Barbara is supported by NASA's FINESST Fellowship and works on FIREBall and CHaS. When she’s not in the lab, you can find her rock climbing, knitting, playing her guitar, baking or geeking about politics.