Ella Nestingen

Honors Physics at the University of Michigan

United States

About

Experience

  • Homer Neal Fellow at CERN
    May 2026 - Present · 3 mos

    As part of the ATLAS experiment, working under Professor Christian Herwig on a novel dark matter search for a heavy neutral lepton in the decay of the W boson during proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider.

  • Dance Marathon at the University of Michigan (2 yrs)
    • Dancer Relations Chair
      May 2026 - Present · 3 mos

    • Dancer Relations Coordinator
      May 2025 - Apr 2026 · 1 yr

    • Dancer
      Aug 2024 - Sep 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Raised over $270 in funds for pediatric therapies at C.S. Mott Children's hospital through talking with community members before sporting events, volunteering at DMUM community events and talking with alumnus Planned with fellow “dancers” cumulative “dance marathon” where students stand for 24 hrs for final fundraising push

  • Shankar Lab: Soft, Living and Functional Matter -- Undergraduate Researcher at University of Michigan
    Aug 2025 - Present · 1 yr

    Leading new research project in lab on understanding the shape morphing properties of 4D printed thermoplastics

  • Server Assistant at Westward at Sea Creatures
    May 2025 - Aug 2025 · 4 mos

    I assist in a variety of tasks to help the restaurant run smoothly and efficiently including running food, polishing dishes and silverware, assisting at the host stand and bussing tables.

  • Statistical Physics of Evolving Systems Lab -- Laboratory Technician at University of Washington
    Apr 2025 - Aug 2025 · 5 mos

    (Now PhABLE at Yale) Conducted experiments on the Slime Mold Physarum Polycephalum, an amoeba-like organisms that demonstrates complex behaviors like learning and decision making despite not having a brain or central processing system. Designed 3D printed mazes to track Slime Molds behavior and decision making Made kymographs to analyze the trajectories of Physarum through mazes in time lapsed videos Designed program to extract slime mold mass from pixel intensity