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
Les Houches 2011: Physics at TeV Colliders New Physics Working Group
Report
(2012)
Computation of neutrino masses in R-parity violating supersymmetry: SOFTSUSY3.2
– Computer Physics Communications
(2012)
183,
785
(doi: 10.1016/j.cpc.2011.11.024)
Hide and Seek With Natural Supersymmetry at the LHC
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2012)
(doi: 10.1007/JHEP05(2012)062)
Benchmark models, planes, lines and points for future SUSY searches at the LHC
– The European Physical Journal C
(2011)
71,
ARTN 1835
Benchmark models, planes, lines and points for future SUSY searches at the LHC
– European Physical Journal C
(2011)
71,
1835
Interpreting a 1 fb-1 ATLAS search in the minimal anomaly mediated supersymmetry breaking model
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2011)
2011,
132
(doi: 10.1007/JHEP11(2011)132)
Discovery reach for generic supersymmetry at the LHC: MT2 versus missing transverse momentum selections for pMSSM searches
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2011)
2011,
(doi: 10.1007/JHEP07(2011)104)
Computation of neutrino masses in R-parity violating supersymmetry: SOFTSUSY3.2
– Computer Physics Communications
(2011)
183,
785
(doi: 10.1016/j.cpc.2011.11.024)
LHC as a complementary probe to study 0 nu beta beta mechanisms
– Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
(2011)
217,
59
Discovery reach for generic supersymmetry at the LHC: M-T2 versus missing transverse momentum selections for pMSSM searches
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2011)
2011,
104
(doi: 10.1007/jhep07(2011)104)
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