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A bit about me.

I am a graduate student in physics at the University of Pennsylvania, where I have worked with the High Energy Experiment group, since I was fifteen. The Penn team has played a central role in the construction and commissioning of the ATLAS Transition Radiation Tracker (TRT). ATLAS is one of the two large, multi-purpose detectors on the Large Hadron Collider; the TRT is the outermost layer of the ATLAS Inner Detector.

I graduated in May 2010 from Swarthmore College, where I double majored in physics and politics, and completed my junior year at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. I took a year off from my formal schooling in 2008-09 to work at CERN, in Geneva; and for the Committee on Science and Technology of the US House of Representatives. In the past several years, I have travelled widely in Latin America, and the Mediterranean. [CV]

My primary academic passions lay in (surprise!) experimental particle physics; in the relationships between science and society, rationality and emotion; and ancient history. Rousseau and Machiavelli are my favorite theorists. I play the piano, climb, and vocalise incurably. I like speaking in French and dabbling in other languages.

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