Biography

I grew up in the suburbs of Seattle, Washington before moving to Vancouver, British Columbia to pursue a Bachelors degree in Physics at the University of British Columbia.  I completed a 4th year research project at UBC on the ATLAS experiment working on the Readout systems for the ATLAS Transition Radiation Tracker.

I then moved to Riverside, California to pursue a PhD in physics at the University of California Riverside under the supervision of Dr. Robert Clare and Dr. Stephen Wimpenny.  I spent the majority of my studies stationed in Geneva, Switzerland at CERN where I worked with the Compact Muon Soleoid (CMS) experiment.  While at CERN, I worked extensively on the ME4/2 upgrade to the CMS Muon endcap system and was one of a small team to physically deploy the detectors onto the CMS endcap in the CMS experimental cavern during CERN's Long Shutdown 1.

I received my Ph.D. in Physics from UCR in 2016 for my research with the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) searching for production of events containing four top quarks (Thesis Link: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3mq985t5).

After graduating, I joined Carleton University as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow  working on the ATLAS New Small Wheel (NSW) small-strip Thin Gap Chamber (sTGC) upgrade project.

I joined the Carleton Department of Physics as a faculty member in the summer of 2018 and continued to work on the NSW. I served as the the Canadian coordinator for the ATLAS-Canada New Small Wheel upgrade project until the deployment of the NSW in 2021.