Adriana Dropulic

Intro

Hi, I'm Adri! I'm a final-year PhD candidate and National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow in the Physics Department at Princeton. I study theoretical physics, focusing on unraveling what the process of galaxy formation can reveal about the properties of dark matter. I use combinations of semi-analytic modeling, N-body simulations, cosmolological hydrodynamical simlations, and machine learning to study the properties and dyanmics of disrupting satellite galaxies, particularly as they relate to the underlying dark matter physics. You can read more about my work and my future work, which will focus on bridging the gap between theory and observations in preparation for the influx of data from the upcoming Rubin Observatory and Roman Space Telescope, here!

I'm also passionate about communicating science so it is accessible to everyone; diversity, equity, and inclusion in physics; and teaching! I've served as a board member for Princeton Women in Physics since 2020, and I was a founding board member of the Princeton Physics Department's EDI Initiative. I am currently a faculty member in the Princeton Writing Program, serving as a Quin Morton Teaching Fellow during my final year of graduate school. You can learn more about my different roles here. Thanks for stopping by, and please reach out if you have any questions or for collaboration! I can be reached through the Contact page or by emailing dropulic [at] princeton [dot] edu.

Work

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About

I completed my undergraduate studies in 2019 at the University of Pennsylvania, where I studied physics, math, and French literature. I dove right into research at CERN the summer before I started undergrad, where I learned how to identify the Z-boson resonance in data from the Large Hadron Collider’s CMS experiment. During undergrad, I entered at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD in the Geospace Physics Laboratory for multiple summers. I studied the energy and motion of the pulsating aurora from imager data, working on identifying links to wave-particle interactions in the Earth’s magnetosphere. I also had the opportunity to briefly explore biophysics research at Miltenyi Biotec in Cologne, Germany, studying the fluid dynamics of a new flow cytometer, as well as condensed matter research at Penn, exploring how carbon graphene can be used to sequence DNA. I completed my senior thesis with the Penn ATLAS group, quantifying the uncertainty due to pile-up collisions in the Large Hadron Collider’s ATLAS experiment.

I moved to Princeton for my PhD in 2019, where I started working with the Princeton CMS group. I worked on a project to put a machine learning algorithm on an FPGA in the CMS experiment’s L1 trigger to identify vector boson fusion Higgs production with decay to tau leptons. I realized that I wanted to learn more about the theoretical side of particle physics and what we can learn about it from astrophysics, so I joined the particle phenomenology group at Princeton, which is where I have completed my graduate thesis. You can check out my recent work!

I am also a member of the Princeton Writing Program faculty this year as a Quin Morton Teaching Fellow! I teach a writing seminar that I designed in conjunction with the Program to 12 awesome Princeton freshmen. My Princeton Writing Program bio is here and my course description is here if you’re curious.

Contact

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