Principal Investigator

Professor Rachel Yohay

Rachel Yohay

Associate Professor of Physics

Associate Professor, Florida State University (2022–)
Assistant Professor, Florida State University (2016–2022)
Ph.D., University of Virginia (2012)

Group Members

Abbas Hassani

Postdoctoral Researcher (2025–)

Ph.D., University of Colorado (2025)

Research interests: Higgs rare decays, quarkonium reconstruction, HGCAL DAQ

Danish Alam

Ph.D. Candidate (2025–)

M.S., Università di Bologna (2023)

Research interests: search for a light pseudoscalar decaying to boosted tau leptons, HGCAL silicon sensors and detector commissioning

Undergraduate Researchers

  • Jimmy Egdorf (Physics, expected graduation 2028) — calorimeter performance studies for a muon collider general purpose detector
  • Sydney Gunn (Physics, expected graduation 2027) — efficiency of electron/muon cross-trigger in boosted topologies

Group Alumni

Jingyu Zhang
Postdoctoral Researcher, 2018–2024 — Postdoctoral researcher, Vanderbilt University
Meutia Wulansatiti Nursanto
Ph.D. 2025 — Postdoctoral researcher, Rice University
Redwan Habibullah
Ph.D. 2022 — Test R&D engineer, Intel Corp.
Hayden Shaddix
B.S. 2023 — Ph.D. candidate, Northern Illinois University

Prospective Students

Interested in joining the group? Graduate and undergraduate students in the FSU Department of Physics work with faculty across a wide range of experimental and theoretical programs. If you are interested in experimental high-energy physics, feel free to reach out by email. Please include a brief description of your background and research interests.

FSU Physics Graduate Program