About Debbie Bard

Debbie Bard a is researcher at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, where she works on science preparation for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). A large part of Debbie's work is developing new methods of extracting information from the future LSST dataset, in order to understand the structure and evolution of our universe. While her current field of study is cosmology, Debbie started her career in particle physics, studying the difference between matter and antimatter with the BaBar experiment at SLAC. Over the course of her career Debbie moved from studying the smallest particles we know to studying the largest structures in the universe! She has always been fascinated with the most fundamental questions in physics: Where did everything come from? What's it all made of? Where's it going? Although particle physics and cosmology appear to be very different subjects, they both seek to answer the same profound questions about the universe we live in. Debbie Bard earned her master's degree in physics from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom, and her PhD in particle physics from the University of Edinburgh.