Angela olinto biography

Astroparticle physicist and professor

Angela Villela Olinto (born July 19, 1961) is an American astroparticle physicist who is the provost of Columbia University.

Previously, she served as the Albert A. Michelson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago as well as the dean of the Physical Sciences Division. Her current work is focused on understanding the origin of high-energy cosmic rays, gamma rays, and neutrinos.^[1]

Early life and education

Olinto was born in Boston, Massachusetts, during her father's graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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The family moved back to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when she was a toddler. She lived in Rio and Brasilia and received her bachelor's degree in physics from Pontificia Universidade Catolica in 1981. As she was finishing her undergraduate studies, she became ill with what was later diagnosed as polymyositis.^[2] She pursue graduate studies at the Massachuse