Angela Olinto
Astroparticle physicist and professor
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| April 1 2024 | Joined Columbia University as provost. |
| 2023 | EUSO-SPB2 was scheduled to fly from Wānaka, New Zealand, combining a more sensitive Fluorescence Telescope and a novel Cherenkov Telescope to search for up-going tau showers produced by astrophysical tau neutrinos. |
| 2021 | Elected to the Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, acknowledging her scientific excellence. |
| 2021 | Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, highlighting her scholarly achievements. |
| 2021 | Elected to the National Academy of Sciences, recognizing her significant contributions to astroparticle physics. |
| 2018 | Became the first female dean of the Physical Sciences Division at the University of Chicago. |
| 2017 | Appointed as Albert A. Michelson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the College at the University of Chicago. |
| 2017 | Olinto began serving as principal investigator for POEMMA (Probe of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics), developing the conceptual design for a NASA space mission. |
| April 2017 | EUSO-SPB1 flew with a Fluorescence Telescope developed for JEM-EUSO, marking an important milestone in Olinto's space observatory research. |
| 2014 | Received Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring at the University of Chicago. |
| 2013 | Delivered the Hess Lecture at the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference. |
| 2013 | Served as the Homer J. Livingston Professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the College at the University of Chicago. |
| 2012 | Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. |
| 2012 | Olinto began serving as the United States principal investigator of JEM-EUSO (Extreme Universe Space Observatory), an international collaboration involving 16 countries to discover the origin of the highest energy cosmic rays. |
| 2012 | Began her second term as chair of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. |
| 2011 | Awarded the Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at the University of Chicago. |
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