Biography
Associate Professor, Carleton University (2022 - present)
Assistant Professor, Carleton University (2017 - 2022)
Chamberlain Fellow and NSERC PDF, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2014 - 2017)
Ph.D. Physics, University of British Columbia and TRIUMF (2008 - 2014)
Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar (2011 - 2014)
B.Sc. Physique, Université Laval (2005 - 2008)
I have joined the faculty at Carleton University in August 2017, in experimental particle physics within the Arthur B. McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute. I work on large-scale low-background experiments at SNOLAB, including the search for dark matter with DEAP-3600 and future liquid argon experiments, and the search for neutrinoless double beta decay with nEXO. I served as Analysis Coordinator for DEAP-3600 in 2019-2023, with responsibility for all aspects of data analysis, including data processing, simulations, event reconstruction, searches and measurements.
Prior to joining the Department of Physics at Carleton, I was a member of the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN. During my PhD, I participated in searches for new particles decaying to muons and electrons in the final state, such as new gauge bosons (force-carrying particles) and the Higgs boson. My research supervisors were Colin Gay (UBC) and Oliver Stelzer-Chilton (TRIUMF).
Then, at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory I researched future upgrades to the inner tracking detector of ATLAS, in preparation for operation at the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider. I served as convener of the simulation and performance group contributing to the design of this new detector, and as release coordinator for ATLAS Upgrade software, in addition to testing detector prototypes. I also worked on developing algorithms to identify boosted Higgs bosons decaying to b-quark pairs.