Cristina Suarez
Assistant Professor at University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolCristina Suarez is an assistant professor and particle physicist with a decade of experience probing the Higgs boson and hunting for low-mass dark matter across both high-energy and high-intensity accelerator experiments. She combines leadership on the CMS experiment at the LHC with work on LDMX at SLAC, bridging large-collider measurements and dedicated searches for weakly coupled dark sectors. Her background includes a PhD from Johns Hopkins and a multi-year Lederman Fellowship at Fermilab, where she gained deep expertise in data-driven analyses and Monte Carlo simulation tuning. Beyond analysis, Cristina contributes to generator tooling—authoring MadGraph card and kinematic-cut configurations used in CMS MC production—reflecting a hands-on approach to both software and physics. Based in Charlottesville, she brings a rare blend of experimental precision, detector-level know-how, and simulation craftsmanship to advancing particle physics.
10 years of coding experience
Johns Hopkins UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics at Escuela Politécnica Nacional
Github Skills (7)
simulations10
simulation10
fortran10
high-energy-physics10
physics10
monte-carlo10
simulator10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cms-sw/genproductions
Sep 2017 - Jan 2018
Generator fragments for MC production
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 3 PRs, 18 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Cristina contributed to the generation of MadGraph5_aMCatNLO cards for various physics processes, including ZJets, WJets, and TTZJets, specifically tailoring the cuts files. These cards are used for Monte Carlo simulations. The commits demonstrate a focus on defining and implementing kinematic cuts within the simulation framework, adapting the code to specific processes and energy levels.
productionfragments
cmantill/boostedhiggs
Dec 2019 - Mar 2025
NanoAOD boosted higgs analysis package
Contributions:1 release, 7 PRs, 260 pushes in 5 years 3 months
analysis-packagehiggspythonnanoaod
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