Christopher Tully

Christopher Tully is a Professor of Physics at Princeton University, where he also served as Associate Chair of the Physics Department. His research focuses on particle physics, including energy-frontier collider experiments at Fermilab and CERN, neutrino mass measurements, and detector technology innovations. He contributed to the Higgs boson discovery at the LHC and leads the PTOLEMY project for relic neutrino detection.

• Education: B.S. in Physics (Caltech, 1992), Ph.D. in Physics (Princeton, 1998)

Research interests include Long-Lived Particles, FCC calorimeter designs, neutrino observatories (e.g., KM3Net), and muon collider cooling studies. He authored Elementary Particle Physics in a Nutshell and contributes to NSF/DOE review committees.

Awards include Sloan and IBM Einstein Fellowships, and CERN/NSF grants. He collaborates with BNL, FNAL, CERN, and LNGS on projects like PTOLEMY’s MgB2 magnet deployment (2025).