Savannah Garmon is an American educator and researcher in physics, Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, research focus on open quantum systems in condensed matter and quantum optics and a trans woman. She is an assistant professor of physical sciences at Osaka Prefecture University in Japan who writes on feminist issues from a transgender perspective. Originally from North Carolina, she received her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007.

Ms. Savannah Garmon received her degree of Bachelor of Science (BS) in Physics and Astronomy in 2001, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After finishing her studies there, she enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin in the same year. Six years later, in 2007, she graduated from the UT and received the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Physics. ^[1]

After earning her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin in 2007, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow in France, Denmark, and Canada before heading to Japan in 2012. Her first stint there was as a postdoc in Tokyo, and then last April she joined the faculty at Osaka Prefecture University where she works as an assistant professor of Theoretical Physics of Solids. When she was harassed by colleagues in one of her postdoc groups, she "just toughed it out, and then left. It created a huge distraction."

Starting from 2007, Ms. Garmon has worked for:

On February 27, 2015, PhysicsToday interviewed LGBT physicists where scientists talked about their experience as sexual and gender minorities. In the interview, Dr. Garmon said, "I came out (as transgender) kind of at the end of my graduate student career. And I became open with everyone, not just people I knew, when I went to Copenhagen [as a postdoc]. That's when I began to live outwardly as a woman." As stated in her profile on HuffPost, Dr. Garmon blogs about transgender community issues and queer politics on her personal page on WordPress. [6]