The Lattice Diversity and Inclusion Committee (LDIC) is a standing committee of the International Symposium of Lattice Field Theory series charged with improving the intellectual and social climate at the Lattice conference and more broadly within our field, responding to issues of harassment and misconduct at the conference, and promoting a welcoming atmosphere, diversity and inclusion in our field.

This committee’s functions include advising the LOCs and IACs for the Lattice conference series on issues related to all aspects of diversity (including but not limited to gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation), acceptable and unacceptable conduct. In consultation with the IAC and LOC, the LDIC maintains a Code of Conduct to be agreed to by all participants during registration for each instance of the Lattice conference series, and later produces surveys and reports on the state of the climate at the lattice conferences and future possible efforts to improve it. The LDIC also produces surveys and reports on diversity and inclusion efforts in the field as a whole, periodically presenting these results to the lattice community. In coordination with the LOC, the LDIC receives, reviews and responds to reports of unprofessional conduct and harassment at the Lattice conference and in the lattice community, maintaining records of these incidents.

This committee was formed in 2018 with ten members who are representative of the field. Whenever possible, the committee membership shall satisfy the following constraints:

  • Minimum of 3 male and 3 female members,
  • Minimum of 2 members from each from the 3 geographic regions (Europe and the Mediterranean; the Americas; Asia/Oceania),
  • Minimum of 1 member each at the rank of Assistant Professor or equivalent, postdoc level, and graduate student level,
  • At least 1 member of an underrepresented ethnic group (non-white/caucasian).

Current Committee Members

  • Portrait photo of Antonin Portelli

    Antonin Portelli

    2023–present
  • Portrait photo of Bipasha Chakraborty

    Bipasha Chakraborty (she/her)

    2022–present

    Lecturer at Uni. of Southampton, UK

    Bipasha is a Leverhulme Trust Early career Fellow and a lecturer in high energy physics at the University of Southampton. She completed her PhD at the University of Glasgow, and held postdoctoral positions in the Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, and in the University of Cambridge. She is an engaged STEM Ambassador and STEM outreach advocate promoting diversity and inclusivity in STEM.

  • Portrait photo of Fernando Romero-López

    Fernando Romero-López (he/him)

    2023–present

    Postdoc at MIT, USA

    Fernando is currently a postdoctoral researcher at MIT. Before that, he completed his master’s and PhD studies in Bonn, Germany and Valencia, Spain, respectively. As a member of this committee, he seeks to actively participate in shaping policies, standards, and initiatives that promote inclusivity for everyone in the lattice QCD community, regardless of their identity, gender, race, or LGBTQIA+ status.

  • Portrait photo of Finn M. Stokes

    Finn M. Stokes (they/them)

    2022–present

    Research Fellow at UofA, Australia

    Finn completed their PhD at the University of Adelaide in Australia in 2018. They are currently employed as a postdoctoral researcher at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany. They have a history of involvement with LGBTQIA+ advocacy groups, and have extensive experience with designing and enforcing codes of conduct.

  • Portrait photo of Indrakshi Raychowdhury

    Indrakshi Raychowdhury (she/her)

    2023–present

    Assist. Prof. at BITS-Pilani, India

    Indrakshi completed her Ph.D. at the University of Calcutta, India in 2014 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at various institutes in India, Europe, and the USA before joining as a faculty at the BITS-Pilani in its Goa campus in 2021. Indrakshi has been advocating for gender equity throughout her career and continues to practice the same along with raising awareness for mental health issues and practicing inclusion of persons with disabilities.

  • Portrait photo of Martha Constantinou

    Martha Constantinou (she/her)

    2023–present

    Assoc. Prof. at Temple University, USA

    Martha is an Associate professor at Temple University, where she was awarded the Selma Lee Bloch Brown Professorship for her contributions to research and service to the community. She has served as the Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) coordinator for scientific meetings and has participated in several DEI panels as an invited speaker. She has also been involved in outreach activities with the purpose of enhancing diversity in STEM.

  • Portrait photo of Nilmani Mathur

    Nilmani Mathur (he/him)

    2022–present

    Professor at TIFR, India

    Nilmani Mathur is a professor of Physics in the Department of Theoretical Physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. His research interest is in the interface of Quantum Field Theory, High Energy Physics and large scale High Performance Computing – mostly to study the properties of elementary as well as composite subatomic particles.

  • Portrait photo of Sofie Martins

    Sofie Martins (she/her)

    2022–present

    PhD student at Uni. of Southern Denmark

    During her undergrad at Humboldt-University, she was women’s representative, involved in mentoring and student representation to increase study accessibility and advocate for equality in education.

  • Portrait photo of Tereza Mendes

    Tereza Mendes (she/her)

    2022–present

    Assoc. Prof. at University of São Paulo, Brazil

    Tereza got her PhD from NYU in 1996 and is currently an Associate Professor at the University of São Paulo, having previously held postdoc positions at Rome “Tor Vergata” and Bielefed, as well as visiting positions at DESY-Zeuthen and LPT Orsay. Her involvement with gender-inequality & diversity issues (e.g. promoting the creation of a female student organization at her institute) is relatively recent, but heartfelt. 

Past Committee Members

  • Christopher A. Aubin (he/him)

    2019–2023

    Assoc. Prof. at Fordham University, USA

  • Gunnar Bali (he/him)

    2019–2022

    Professor at University of Regensburg

  • Huey-Wen Lin (she/her)

    2019–2022

    Professor at Michigan State University

  • Liuming Liu (she/her)

    2019–2023

    Research Scientist at IMP, CAS, China

  • Luigi Del Debbio (he/him)

    2019–2023

    Professor at Uni. of Edinburgh, Scotland

  • Sinéad Ryan (she/her)

    2019–2022

    Professor at Trinity College, Dublin

  • Sophie Hollitt (they/them)

    2019–2022

    Postdoctoral Researcher at TU Dortmund, Germany

  • Vera Gülpers (she/her)

    2019–2022

    Lecturer at University of Edinburgh, Scotland

  • Will Detmold (he/him)

    2019–2023

    Professor at MIT, USA