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Marcus Hohlmann

Professor | COES: Department of Aerospace, Physics and Space Sciences

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Dr. Hohlmann researches elementary particles and their interactions at the highest energies that can be achieved in the laboratory. His work centers on the study of high energy particle collisions at large accelerators and the construction of instrumentation, i.e. particle detectors, needed to carry out those studies. Currently he pursues this research with the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, that discovered the Higgs boson in 2012. In the past, he worked at the Tevatron collider of the Fermi National Accelerator Lab (Fermilab), where he contributed to the discovery and study of the sixth and heaviest quark, the top quark, and at the HERA accelerator at DESY, where he helped to build a large tracking detector for the HERA-B experiment designed to study CP violation with bottom quarks.

With his students, Dr. Hohlmann builds and operates advanced gaseous particle detectors, such as GEM detectors for the CMS experiment at CERN and micro-RWELL detectors for ePIC, a future nuclear physics experiments at the Electron-Ion Collider to be constructed in the U.S. by 2030. In the past, his students constructed and operated Fl. Tech's only Grid Computing Cluster, which was an official Tier-3 computing site on the Open Science Grid.

Dr. Hohlmann serves as P.I. and CERN team leader for the Florida Tech HEP group and as Florida Tech's representative on the Institution Board of the CMS Muon Detector Group.

He is a charter member of the RD51 collaboration at CERN, which is dedicated to developing Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGDs) for particle detection. He is Florida Tech's RD51 team leader and serves on the RD51 collaboration board.

He also advises the Badminton Club and used to play with the P/SS Program's Intramural Softball Team - the "InfraRed Sox".