About

I am currently an Assistant Professor of Physics at Westmont College. I work on the ATLAS experiment and am based in Santa Barbara, CA. In particular, I look for hints of new particles in decays of the Higgs boson. I also work on the ATLAS trigger system, which determines which collisions should be saved in a fraction of a second.

I was a postdoc (2015-2020), then Samuel Langley fellow (2020-2021) at the University of Pittsburgh, where I searched for invisible decays of the Higgs boson as well as developed expertise in the ATLAS trigger.

As an undergraduate REU student, I studied electron cloud development at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring. I then went to graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University and received my Ph.D. in 2015. I joined the CMS experiment, where I worked on a measurement of the Upsilon cross section and a search for supersymmetry. My thesis was on a search for “stealth” supersymmetry using leptons and jets and no missing transverse energy.