Lina Necib, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Necib is originally from Tunisia. She received a B.A. in math and physics from Boston University in 2012 and a Ph.D. in particle physics from MIT in 2017. She was then a Sherman Fairchild Fellow at Caltech starting in 2017 before starting as an assistant professor of physics at MIT in July 2021. Her research interests in theoretical astrophysics center around dark matter.