Professor Elisabetta Barberio is the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics and initiated the underground direct detection dark matter program in Australia, which led to the construction of the first underground laboratory in the Southern Hemisphere, the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL) in Victoria. SUPL will host the SABRE South experiment, the first underground Australian dark matter direct detection experiment led by her.  She had an important role in the discovery of the Higgs boson particle at the Large Hadron Collider. Professor Barberio was a researcher at CERN, the European laboratory of Particle Physics, where she performed measurements that confirmed the theory describing fundamental particles behaviour to an extraordinary degree of precision.