Our Founder, Dr. Bernadette K. Cogswell, is a theoretical particle physicist specializing in neutrinos, phenomenology, and nuclear non-proliferation. She received her Ph.D. in physics from Vanderbilt University and has a B.S. in Psychology and an M.A. in English.
After her Ph.D., she completed a two-year post-doc at Princeton University with the Program for Science and Global Security, then received a Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Fellowship to the University of Manchester UK where she continued her work in neutrino phenomenology.
After returning to the US, Bernadette worked for four years as a Research Scientist with the Center for Neutrino Physics at Virginia Tech on nuclear non-proliferation and novel neutrino detector opportunities.
Her work has successfully bridged policy and science. She was also a full-time physics instructor with a special apprenticeship program at Pearl Harbor Naval base in Honolulu, Hawai’i and the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.
She is currently the CEO and primary instructor for all courses and workshops at The Insightful Scientist.