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Detailed CV: Nicole_Bell_CV

Current Appointments
2023 – onward     President, The Australian Institute of Physics
2023 – onward     Divisional Associate Editor, Physical Review Letters
2020 – onward     Theory Program Leader, Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics
2020 – onward     Professor, School of Physics, The University of Melbourne

Selected Recognition
2020      Nancy Millis Medal awarded by the Australian Academy of Science
2020      Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics
2016      Fellow of the American Physical Society

Publications:
A full publication list is available on INSPIRE or Google Scholar.

Brief Career Biography
Professor Bell completed her PhD in 2001 at the University of Melbourne. She held a postdoctoral appointment in the Theoretical Astrophysics Group at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), USA from 2001–2004, followed by a Sherman Fairchild Prize Fellowship with the Kellogg Radiation Laboratory and the Theoretical Astrophysics group at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from 2004–2006. She commenced a continuing appointment at the University of Melbourne in 2007.

She was a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale (CoEPP) and currently leads the Theory Program of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics.

Professor Bell is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Australian Institute of Physics. She was awarded the Nancy Millis Medal (2020) by the Australian Academy of Science for her work on dark matter and neutrino physics. She has received various other awards including the Bragg Gold Medal from the Australian Institute of Physics (2001), the Alvin Tollestrup Award for Postdoctoral Research at Fermilab (2004), a Sherman Fairchild Fellowship at Caltech (2004) and an ARC Future Fellowship (2012).