Rate My Professor Zeynep Demiragli

Zeynep Demiragli is an Associate Professor of Physics at Boston University, promoted with tenure in 2024. She earned a BS in Physics from Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2010, and a PhD in experimental particle physics from Brown University in 2015. After her PhD, she served as a postdoctoral researcher at MIT from 2015 to 2018, before joining Boston University as Assistant Professor in 2018.

Demiragli's research focuses on experimental high-energy physics at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. She specializes in searches for dark matter and physics beyond the Standard Model using signatures with energetic jets and missing transverse momentum imbalance, such as mono-jet events. As convener of the CMS jet and missing transverse momentum physics group, she has developed object reconstruction algorithms and monitored their performance. She leads efforts in upgrading the CMS inner tracker for the High Luminosity LHC, including the design, production, and testing of approximately 70 pixel Data, Trigger, and Control readout boards based on Advanced Telecom Computer Architecture. Demiragli received the NSF CAREER Award in 2021 to explore dark matter signatures and develop recasting tools for new physics searches, and the CMS Young Researcher Prize in 2020 for contributions to mono-jet searches, the JetMet group, and trigger systems. She chairs international and national commissions on beyond-Standard-Model physics and detector development, and edits the Particle Physics Data Book. Key publications include “Search for new physics in final states with an energetic jet or a hadronically decaying W or Z boson and transverse momentum imbalance at √s = 13 TeV” (Phys. Rev. D 97, 092005, 2018), “Search for dark matter produced with an energetic jet or a hadronically decaying W or Z boson at √s = 13 TeV” (JHEP 07, 014, 2017), and contributions to CMS results such as the observation of the Higgs boson at 125 GeV (Phys. Lett. B 716, 30, 2012). She holds grants from the US Department of Energy and NSF.