Barbara Cruvinel Santiago

Women in Physics Lead Coordinator

Barbara is a first-year Physics Ph.D. student from Brazil. She got her B.S. in Physics at Yale, working at CERN and in AMO as an undergrad, after which she took a gap year at MIT working on LIGO. At Columbia, she works on astronomical instrumentation in Professor David Schiminovich's group. Barbara was very active in groups that encouraged women and minorities in science in college, and is a part of both Spectra and the Physics Grad Council at Columbia. When she’s not in lab, teaching, or doing homework, Barbara likes to rock climb, play her guitar, knit, and listen to politics podcasts. Reach out to her with any questions regarding graduate school or Spectra events targeting grad students!