@font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } I am a Particle Physics Experimentalist, and my research focuses on data analysis at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. I joined the CMS experiment in 2005. I am also a collaborator on the CDF experiment at the Tevatron (Fermi National Accelerator Center), where I was a postdoc before I came to Cornell.I was a graduate student on the SLD experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and I worked at HERA (Deutsche Electron Synchroton, DESY) as an undergraduate student at the University of Hamburg.   The LHC is colliding protons at the highest energies ever reached with accelerators- a new energy scale that opens up the exciting possibility of great scientific discoveries. Explanations for the origin of electroweak symmetry breaking, the existence of dark matter, and the discovery of supersymmetric particles are finally within our reach. Together with my research group we are currently in the process of measuring “standard candle” processes, such as the top quark production cross section, to validate our analysis tools and to calibrate the CMS detector response to proton collisions. New phenomena, such as signatures of processes involving dark matter, could appear soon, as we are integrating data and are gaining sensitivity rapidly. To search for these signatures, we are preparing for measurements in several channels, most of them involving "missing energy" in the detector from the dark matter candidate.   I am also interested in R&D for novel pixel detectors, such as monolithic detectors or 3D

integrated detectors, to be used at future detectors at the Super-LHC or the International Linear Collider. Our sensitivity to New Physics depends critically on our ability to track particles with very high precision in a very challenging environment. Currently, most of this work is taking place at the Cornell Nanofabrication Center.   My research group consistes of myself, one postdoc at CERN,  four graduate students (at Fermilab, Cornell and CERN), and 5 Undergraduate students. I am collaborating closely with colleagues at  Cornell, CERN, and Fermilab.