Tova Holmes, Ph.D.

Tova Holmes is an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She has run a broad program searching for novel signatures of supersymmetry and dark matter at the LHC. Holmes has a long record of building and commissioning trackers and tracking systems across both ATLAS and CMS, but her current focus is real-time tracking with FPGAs for CMS’s Level 1 Trigger at the High-Luminosity LHC. Looking further into the future, her team has worked on detector design and on-detector algorithms for background rejection at a muon collider, and Holmes is currently leading the formation of a US Muon Collider Collaboration. Holmes is the recipient of a Department of Energy Early Career Award and is a Cottrell Scholar and a Sloan Fellow.