Mariangela Lisanti is a professor of physics at Princeton University and a research scientist in the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute. She is an astroparticle theorist and leads a group at Princeton researching the nature of dark matter. She earned her B.S. from Harvard University, summa cum laude, in 2005 and her Ph.D. from Stanford in 2010. She joined the Princeton faculty in the Department of Physics in 2013. She is also a faculty fellow at the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science and a participating faculty member at the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning. She has received numerous awards and honors over the years, including the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University and the Simons Investigator Award, from the Simons Foundation. She also currently chairs the Princeton Physics Department’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Initiative.