After graduating from Princeton, Farrar held post-doctoral positions at the
Institute for Advanced Study and
Caltech. During her time at Caltech, Farrar improved the current understanding of the Pion form-factor, and proposed a new model for elastic
nucleon scattering. She accepted a faculty position at
Rutgers University in 1979, where her work continued to probe Standard Model interactions and contemporary developments in Supersymmetric string theory. Farrar joined the physics faculty at NYU in 1998, where she currently resides. While at NYU, she chaired the physics department and founded the Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics. and received a
Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984. She was elected in 2003 a Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In 2014 and 2021, Farrar was selected as a
Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics. She was also the chair of the Division of Astrophysics (DAP) of the
American Physical Society for the 2021-2022 period. She was elected to the
National Academy of Sciences in 2023. Farrar has spent many years of her career working on understanding the sources of the highest-energy comic rays. She has significantly contributed to the research conducted by the
Pierre Auger Observatory, with more than one-hundred publications in this experiment alone. As a theoretical physicist she has worked on developing tools for particle-detection from high energy sources in the universe. In 2012, Ronnie Jansson (then a graduate student) and Farrar, published an article presenting a new model of the galactic magnetic field. ==References==