Triveni Rao
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Triveni Rao is an Indian and American physicist and an expert on physics instrumentation. She is a senior physicist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory,[1] acting head of the Instrumentation Facilities Division at the laboratory,[2] and an adjunct professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University.[3]
Originally from India,[1] Rao completed a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Illinois Chicago in 1983,[4][5] after also earning a master's degree there.[1] After working in industry for a year, she joined the Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1985.[4][5]
Formerly the head of the Laser Applications Group at Brookhaven,[6] she subsequently became associate division head of the Instrumentation Division,[1] and then acting head of the Instrumentation Facilities Division.[2]
In 2023 she was funded by the Indian government by a Visiting Advance Joint Research Faculty Fellowship, for a visiting position at the Inter-University Accelerator Centre in Delhi.[7]