She is an associate professor in the Department of Physics at Ohio State University and a Fellow of the American Physical Society for "her contributions to experimental and theoretical studies of ultrahigh energy neutrinos, and to searches for these neutrinos using radio techniques."
While completing her doctorate degree, she carried out a search for the Higgs boson decaying to tau leptons with data from the Collider Detector.
[4] She left UCL in 2010 to become an assistant professor of physics at Ohio State University (OSU).
In this role, she received a five-year National Science Foundation CAREER Award to support her search for high-energy neutrinos.
[7] During her tenure at OSU, Connolly's research focused on simulations, data analysis, and instrumentation for experiments searching for neutrinos through vast volumes of natural media.