Kerstin Perez
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Kerstin Perez | |
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| Thesis | Inclusive jet cross sections in proton-proton collisions at 7.0 TeV center-of-mass energy with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (2011) |
| Doctoral advisor | Emlyn Hughes |
Kerstin Perez is an associate professor of Particle Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is interested in physics beyond the standard model. She leads the silicon detector program for the General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) and the high-energy X-ray analysis community for the NuSTAR telescope array.
Perez was born and raised in West Philadelphia.[1] She studied physics and mathematics at Columbia University, earning an undergraduate degree magna cum laude in 2005.[2] She moved to the California Institute of Technology for her graduate studies, earning a master's in 2008 and a PhD in 2011.[1] She developed the ATLAS experiment pixel detector, and led the first ATLAS measurements of the inclusive cross-section for the production of hadronic jets.[3] Perez returned to Columbia University as a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow, working in the NuSTAR Galactic Center.[4] During her fellowship she developed outreach activities for the Columbia University Double Discovery Centre.
