Farrah Simpson joined the Princeton University Department of Physics as a Dicke fellow in September 2024. As a member of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, she works with the Princeton CMS group to search for Beyond Standard Model physics and to enhance the sensitivity of searches for Long-Lived Particles (LLPs) through machine learning techniques. She is also involved in the upgrades of the CMS detector’s Outer Tracker (OT) as part of the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) upgrade. 

Before joining Princeton, she received her Ph.D. from Brown University under the guidance of Professors Meenakshi Narain and Ulrich Heintz. Her doctoral research focused on new physics searches for Vector-Like Quarks and LLPs. She conducted the search for a VLQ that is a heavy fermionic partner of the top quark with an exotic charge. 

She is also actively involved in many Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) efforts within the physics community. She currently serves on the American Institute of Physics (AIP) TEAM-UP Together Committee and the US CMS DEI Committee and has served on the board of the National Society of Black Physicists (2020-2022).