My research interests are in the area of experimental elementary particle physics, including searches for new phenomena, such as Supersymmetry. I work with scientists at the world’s largest particle collider, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland, to search for clues to how the universe was created. Along with Prof. Yasar Onel, am on the University of Iowa's team for the Compact Muon Solenoid, one of two gigantic particle detectors at the LHC. Our group has been collaborating with physicists around the world to study the results of high-energy collisions in the hopes that they will yield new information about the universe’s birth and its evolution over the past 13 billion years.

I'm also part of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, that involves searching for neutrinos, ghostly particles that help power the sun and stars, among other basic roles in the universe.