Career
- 2014-date Principal Investigator on Cambridge STFC High Energy Physics theory consolidated grant
- 2011-date Professor of Theoretical Physics, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
- 2022-2023 Scientific Associate, CERN (on sabbatical leave from Cambridge)
- 2009-2010 Reader, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
- 2004-2008 Lecturer, DAMTP, 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. He is a particle phenomenologist and is primarily interested in interpreting data coming from the CERN experiments in terms of new particles and forces. Then he tries to rule such new particles and forces out with other data. If this doesn't work, he asks what theoretical framework do they come from and can this explain unanswered mysteries.
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
Collider aspects of flavor physics at high Q
– The European Physical Journal C
(2008)
57,
183
Panglossian prospects for detecting neutralino dark matter in light of natural priors?
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2008)
2008,
071
Bayesian selection of sign mu within mSUGRA in global fits including WMAP5 results
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2008)
10,
064
SUSY predictions and SUSY tools at the LHC
– The European Physical Journal C
(2008)
59,
427
Global fits of the large volume string scenario to WMAP5 and other indirect constraints using Markov chain Monte Carlo
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2008)
2008,
105
Sampling using a ‘bank’ of clues
– Computer Physics Communications
(2008)
179,
256
(doi: 10.1016/j.cpc.2008.02.020)
Lepton number violating mSUGRA and neutrino masses
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2008)
2008,
081
Measuring smuon-selectron mass splitting at the CERN LHC and patterns of supersymmetry breaking
– Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
(2008)
77,
076006
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.77.076006)
Z boson decay to photon plus Kaluza-Klein graviton: large extra dimensional bounds
– The European Physical Journal C
(2008)
55,
107
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