Board position: Faculty Advisor (since 2011)
E-mail: sarah.demers@yale.edu
Professor Sarah Demers, with her over 400 publications, focuses her research on using tau leptons to probe for and characterize physics beyond the standard model at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. After receiving her A.B. from Harvard University, she got her Ph.D. in physics at the University of Rochester. She taught at Roberts Wesleyan College and served as a research associate at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University before joining the Yale faculty in 2009 as assistant professor of physics. She is a co-founder of the Yale Franke and Whitney Humanities Center group “Interdisciplinary Arts and Science Research”. She also collaborates on a project that bridges physics and dance and is co-writing a coursebook on the subject. She has been the faculty advisor of Women in Physics since the organization’s foundation. Professor Demers is very active helping the group’s activities and is an inspiration for young women in physics at Yale and beyond.
[Last updated on March 20, 2016]