Prof. Albert is heavily involved in three major research effort areas in physics around the world: 1) The ATLAS experiment at CERN in Switzerland, where his work in searching for and measuring the properties of the Higgs boson addresses the question of the source of mass of the fundamental particles in the universe; 2) Co-founding of, and current senior leadership positions on, both the ALTAIR and ORCASat projects, which produce calibrated light sources to fly on high altitude balloons and in space to calibrate ground-based telescopes, in order to address the question of why the expansion of the universe is accelerating; and 3) The BABAR experiment at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, where his work addresses the question of why the universe is made of matter rather than antimatter.