Patricia McBride (S 1977)

2019 Alumni Achievement (Merit)

Bio

Patricia McBride is a distinguished scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) and deputy spokesperson for the CMS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Previously, she served as head of Fermilab’s Particle Physics Division and its scientific computing programs.  

Patricia has been a member of the CMS collaboration for more than a decade, serving as the head of Fermilab’s CMS efforts and managing the U.S. CMS Operations Program, which oversees U.S. contributions to CMS experiment operations. During CMS’s commissioning phase, she served as deputy computing coordinator, working with scientists and computing specialists from around the globe to establish the high-throughput computing resources needed for analysis of the large volume of CMS data.

She has served on many national and international committees, and was the chair of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society (APS), the U.S. Liaison Committee of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and the IUPAP C11 Commission for Particles and Fields. She is currently a member of the AURA NCOA Management Oversight Council, J-PARC International Advisory Committee and AUI Visiting Committee for NRAO. She was elected an APS and an AAAS Fellow in 2009.