Glennys R. Farrar

Glennys R. Farrar is a Collegiate Professor of Physics and Julius Silver, Rosalind S. Silver and Enid Silver Winslow Professor at New York University. Her primary research goal is discovering the identify of the Dark Matter which comprises more than 80% of the matter in the Universe, yet does not contain protons and neutrons making it fundamentally different than any known type of matter.

She is currently investigating whether it can be composed of quarks in a hard-to-discern form that has eluded discovery, or must be evidence of an entirely new sub-nuclear world as usually assumed. Other interests are the origin of the excess of matter over anti-matter (without which the Universe would be devoid of galaxies, stars and life), the strong CP puzzle (why the neutron electric dipole moment is a billion times smaller than expected), the origin of the Galactic magnetic field and sources of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs).

Farrar has received Sloan, Guggenheim, and Simons Fellowships and serves on advisory panels for NASA, NSF, and the European Research Council. She 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 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.