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Dimitra Karabali

MPS Scientific Advisory Board Member

An older woman with short gray hair and earrings, wearing a blue top, stands in front of a bookshelf with books and a potted plant. She is smiling slightly at the camera.Dimitra Karabali is Professor of Physics at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). She received her Ph.D. from Yale University and subsequently held postdoctoral appointments at Brandeis University, City College of CUNY, Syracuse University, and the Institute for Advanced Study. She began her faculty career as an Assistant Professor at Rockefeller University before joining Lehman College.

Karabali served as the chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Lehman College from 2006 to 2012 and again from 2018 to 2021. In recognition of her exceptional scholarship, teaching, and service, she was selected as a Lehman Professor of Excellence.

A theoretical high energy physicist, her research focuses on quantum field theory, particularly nonperturbative phenomena of gauge theories, the Casimir effect, noncommutative geometry, as well as on mathematical aspects of condensed matter phenomena such as the quantum Hall effect.