Education
- B.S., University of Tirana, Albania
- M.S., University of Maryland
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Laura Mersini-Houghton received her undergraduate degree from the University of Tirana, Albania, her M.Sc. from the University of Maryland and was awarded a PhD in 2000 by the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
After her PhD she was a postdoctoral fellow at Scuola Normale at the University of Pisa, in Italy from 2000 to 2002. In 2002 she was a postdoc at the University of Syracuse, New York. In 2004, she was appointed Assistant Professor of Cosmology at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (UNC), and became an Associate Professor in 2008.
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