Bárbara Cruvinel Santiago

Bárbara Cruvinel Santiago is the John B. Madden Dean of Berkeley College at Yale University and a lecturer in the Yale Department of Physics. She holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Columbia University, where she researched astronomical instrumentation with the support from a NASA fellowship. During her doctoral studies, she became one of the inaugural fellows of the Physicists’ Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction and received the American Physical Society Five Sigma Physicist prize for outstanding advocacy. After Columbia, Dr. Cruvinel Santiago spent one year as a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation studying how to reduce the risk of nuclear weaponization of dual-purpose scientific research. Prior to her Ph.D., she got a B.S. in Physics from Yale and spent a year as a research assistant at MIT’s Nobel-prize-winning LIGO lab.

Bio recorded January 11, 2025