Dr. Suvarna Ramachandran

Dr. Suvarna Ramachandran is an Experimental Particle Physicist specializing in High Energy Physics. She holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Kentucky, USA, where she was part of the Spin Physics group of the STAR Experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York. Her doctoral research focused on probing the gluon spin contributions to the spin of the proton. She completed her M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Hyderabad, Telangana, and her B.Sc. in Physics from CMS College, Kerala.

Dr. Suvarna conducted her postdoctoral research at Argonne National Laboratory under the United States Department of Energy, where she worked on the Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab. Her contributions included active involvement in data collection and precision magnetic field analysis, playing a role in advancing one of the most significant tests of the Standard Model of Particle Physics.

In recognition of this groundbreaking work, Dr. Suvarna was one of the recipients of the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, as part of the Fermilab Muon g-2 collaboration. This prestigious honor acknowledges the collaboration’s high-precision measurement of the muon’s anomalous magnetic moment, a result with profound implications for our understanding of the universe.

Dr. Suvarna has published in leading international journals and presented her research at numerous international conferences. Her research interests lie in experimental particle physics, with a focus on precision measurements and fundamental interactions. She is deeply passionate about basic science and is committed to inspiring and mentoring students through teaching. She places particular emphasis on undergraduate education, striving to build strong conceptual foundations and cultivate curiosity at the early stages of scientific training.