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Marjorie D. Shapiro is Professor of the Graduate School in the Physics Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She earned her A.B. in Physics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University in June 1976 and her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley in December 1984. After serving as a Research Associate at Harvard from 1985 to 1987, she was Assistant Professor there from 1987 to 1989 and Loeb Associate Professor from 1989. Shapiro joined UC Berkeley as Assistant Professor in January 1990, was promoted to Associate Professor in 1992 and full Professor in 1994, and served as Chair of the Physics Department from June 2004 to 2007. She has been Faculty Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since July 1992.

An experimental particle physicist, Marjorie Shapiro probes basic interactions in nature, including quark and lepton masses, the Fermi constant, CP non-invariance, and extensions to the Standard Model. Her research employs hadron colliders to search for new phenomena at energies from 100 GeV to 1 TeV. As a member of the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, she contributes to searches for TeV-scale gravity and supersymmetry, measurements of Higgs boson couplings and properties, top quark production, charm production in association with W bosons, and high pT jets. Her efforts include ATLAS pixel detector operations, software development for track and jet reconstruction, Monte Carlo event generation, simulation, and contributions to the LHC Phase II upgrade of the Inner Tracking Detector silicon components. Shapiro is a recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator Award from 1989 to 1994 and was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1992 and Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020. She has authored over 770 refereed publications, including key ATLAS papers such as 'Luminosity Determination in pp Collisions at √s=7 TeV Using the ATLAS Detector at the LHC' (Eur. Phys. J. C 71, 1630, 2011), 'Search for pair production of a new quark that decays to a Z boson and a bottom quark with the ATLAS detector' (Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 071801, 2012), 'Measurement of the production of a W boson in association with a charm quark in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector' (JHEP 1405, 068, 2014), and CDF's 'Observation of B⁰ₛ - anti-B⁰ₛ Oscillations' (Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 242003, 2006). Shapiro has held influential committee roles, including HEPAP (1997-2000), Fermilab Physics Advisory Committee (1989-1993), SLAC Scientific Policy Committee (1995-1998), multiple P5 panels for particle physics prioritization (2003-2004, 2008, 2010), and external review committees for physics departments at Harvard, UCSB, UCLA, Toronto, and others.