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Isabel Rose Ojalvo is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Princeton University. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2014. Before receiving her doctorate, she worked at Boeing Space Intelligence Systems in El Segundo, California, and was a Dicke Fellow in 2016. Her work primarily focuses on studying the decays of tau leptons using data collected from the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, located near Geneva, Switzerland. She has spent years working on the Level 1 Trigger System at CMS, where she has been involved in commissioning and installing hardware, as well as developing new high-speed algorithms to run large Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Throughout her academic career, she has received several grants from the Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Traineeship Program, the National Science Foundation Graduate Traineeship Program, and the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Foundation. Additionally, she is an author on over 1000 scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals.
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