Profile
Jenny Smallwood
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About Me:
I am a PhD student at the University of Oxford, where I live with my partner.
I like playing sports including sailing, swimming, hiking and tennis, and also cooking and baking tasty food!
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My pronouns are:
she/her
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I'm a member of team LHCb
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My Work:
I work on the LHCb experiment at CERN, where I study data from the proton collisions to understand the properties of particles with a charm quark in them.
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I also work on the development of a new detector for LHCb called TORCH. TORCH could provide us with better knowledge of the particles we are creating.
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Education:
Beaconsfield High School for GCSEs and A-levels
University of Manchester for my undergraduate degree
University of Oxford for my PhD
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Qualifications:
GCSEs: Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, English, History, Geography, French, Spanish, Latin, Advanced Maths
A Levels: Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Chemistry (History and Critical Thinking to AS level)
Degree: Master in Mathematics and Physics
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Work History:
Student ambassador at University of Manchester
Sailing instructor in the summer holidays
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Employer:
University of Oxford
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My Interview
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How would you describe yourself in 3 words?
hungry sporty physicist
If you weren't doing this job, what would you choose instead?
Pilot
Who is your favourite singer or band?
Lorde
What's your favourite food?
Chocolate!
Tell us a joke.
What cheese do you use to coax a bear out of a cave? Camembert
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