Profile

I work on a few projects as part of my PhD. One on analysis, where we use the data already collected by our experiment, one on software, developing tools for others in our collaboration to use, and one on hardware, experimenting with new technologies for future versions of our experiment!

For my analysis, I search for physics that we don’t think should exist. This might sound like a bad plan but the idea is that if we do find anything, we know that our understanding of physics isn’t good enough and that we need to have a re-think! To look for this “new physics”, as we like to call it, we have to work hard to remove any mess from other processes so that we can be 100% sure we correctly understand the particles we recorded.

My hardware project is in the ultra-clean labs in Birmingham where we have to wear a special outfit to stop us bringing dust and dirt inside! I test sensors that could be used on future versions of our experiment LHCb. This involves work with electronics, lasers and radiation, but we’re all trained to keep ourselves and each other safe!

For my software project I am developing tools that will allow other researchers to more easily test their projects more often and on a larger scale! This will involve using computers from all around the world to share the workload!