Career
- 2014-date Principal Investigator on Cambridge STFC High Energy Physics theory consolidated grant
- 2011-date Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
- 2022-2023 Scientific Associate, CERN (on sabbatical leave from Cambridge)
- 2009-2010 Reader, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
- 2004-2008 Lecturer, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
- 2004-2009 PPARC Advanced Fellow, University of Cambridge
- 2002-2004 Postdoctoral researcher, Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules Theorie
- 2000-2002 Fellow, TH Division, CERN
- 1998-2000 Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
- 1995-1998 Higher Scientific Officer, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Research
Ben is a member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics High Energy Physics research group and The Cambridge Pheno Working Group based at the Cavendish Laboratory.
Ben is a particle phenomenologist and is primarily interested in interpreting data coming from the CERN experiments in terms of new particles and forces.
Lecturing
Part III (Master's course), lecture notes and accompanying youtube lectures:
Ph.D. Students
- Eetu Loisa: 2021-
- Hannah Banks: 2019-2023
- Maeve Madigan: 2018-2021
- Tom Cridge: 2014-2018
- Sophie Renner: 2012-2016
- Matt Dolan: 2007-2010
- Jordan Skittrall: 2006-2009
- Steve Kom: 2005-2008
Music: Professor Jammin
Selected External Activities
- 2019-date Author of The Review of Particle Physics
- 2018 Quantum Selves art exhibition, Burgh House and Hampstead Museum, London
- 2017 Consultant for Guerilla Science's Intergalactic Travel Bureau stage show
- 2013 TEDx talk, Budapest, Hungary
- 2012 Co-hosted CERN dinner at TEDGlobal event, Edinburgh
- 2005-2006 Scientific Secretary, CERN Council Strategy Group
Publications
Searching for Narrow Graviton Resonances with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider
(2000)
R-parity violating anomaly mediated supersymmetry breaking
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2000)
2000,
12
Naturalness Reach of the Large Hadron Collider in Minimal Supergravity
(2000)
Report of the 'Beyond the Standard Model' working group of the 1999 UK Phenomenology Workshop on Collider Physics (Durham) 1. Introduction
– Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle Physics
(2000)
26,
551
(doi: 10.1088/0954-3899/26/5/311)
Report of the 'Beyond the Standard Model' working group of the 1999 UK Phenomenology Workshop on Collider Physics (Durham) 7. Implications of LEP precision electroweak data for Higgs searches beyond the SM
– JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
(2000)
26,
576
7. Implications of LEP precision electroweak data for Higgs searches beyond the SM
– Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
(2000)
26,
576
Report of the 'Beyond the Standard Model' working group of the 1999 UK Phenomenology Workshop on Collider Physics (Durham) 2. Naturalness reach of the large hadron collider in mSUGRA
– JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
(2000)
26,
553
Bounds on Ä-parity violating couplings at the weak scale and at the GUT scale
– Physical Review D
(1999)
60,
Bounds onR-parity violating couplings at the weak scale and at the GUT scale
– Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
(1999)
60,
075014
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.60.075014)
2-loop supersymmetric renormalization group equations including R-parity violation and aspects of unification
– Physical Review D
(1999)
60,
056002
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.60.056002)
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