UCL HEP Research Fellowships
We are keen to support a limited number of strong candidates in applying for Research Fellowships.
If your profile and interests match our activities, we would be very interested to hear from you.
We are keen to support a limited number of strong candidates in applying for Research Fellowships.
If your profile and interests match our activities, we would be very interested to hear from you.
The High Energy Physics group at UCL invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Proton Beam Therapy (PBT) diagnostics development.
The latest result in the search for Higgs pair production in ATLAS at the LHC, in the 4b final state, is now out:
with big contributions from the UCL ATLAS team, including the co-editor of the journal publication.
Higgs pair production (the production of two Higgs bosons in a single proton-proton collision at the LHC)
is a rare process that can shed light on the properties of the Higgs boson and particularly the Higgs field
potential (the famous "Mexican hat"). The Electroweak Phase Transition, one of the most dramatic and
defining moments in the evolution of our Universe, happened around 1 picosecond (one billionth of a
millisecond!) after the Big Bang. The shape of the Higgs field potential is intricately linked to that moment.
We are keen to support a limited number of strong candidates in applying for Research Fellowships. If your profile and interests match our activities, we would be very interested to hear from you.
UCL’s Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Data-Intensive Science (DIS) has been awarded a £1.3M grant from STFC to extend its activities for the next six years.
An international team including researchers at UCL have made the most precise measurement of an elementary particle – which does not match predictions under the guiding theory of physics.
Some of the most fundamental questions about the Universe will be investigated by UCL particle physicists, following a £4.34 million award from the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).
The High Energy Physics group at UCL invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Proton Beam Therapy (PBT) diagnostics development.
Mini particle accelerators are a step closer to being realised after a new study co-led by UCL researchers showed it would be possible to accelerate millions of bunches of electrons per second using plasma waves.
The High Energy Physics group are offering two Brian Duff studentships to undergraduates interested in pursuing research projects over the summer.
UCL celebrated the launch of the Centre for Data Intensive Science & Industry which will engage students in AI training, research and knowledge exchange between academia and industry.
Simon Jolly has been awarded £378,273.84 of a total £1.5million of the CLASP fund (three projects overall).
Winners have been announced for the Ariel Space Mission 'Machine vs stellar and instrument noise' Data Challenge 2021.
The spin of the Milky Way’s galactic bar, which is made up of billions of clustered stars, has slowed by about a quarter since its formation, according to a new study by UCL and University of Oxford researchers.
The largest ever map of dark matter – invisible matter thought to account for 80% of the total matter of the Universe – has been created by a team co-led by UCL researchers, as part of the international Dark Energy Survey (DES).
The “wobble”, or rate of precession, of the muon particle in a magnetic field is different from what our best theoretical model of the subatomic world would predict, according to an experiment involving UCL researchers that strengthens evidence
UCL researchers are leading a £3.8 million project to develop quantum technology aimed at detecting the mass of a neutrino, the universe’s most abundant but elusive particle of matter.
A team headed up by Joao Seco at the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) and Simon Jolly of UCL High Energy Physics is among the finalists in the PhysicsWorld Breakthrough of the Year prize.
Professor Sir Roger Penrose, who was a mathematics undergraduate at UCL, is among three scientists to have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for work relating to black holes.
UCL Particle Physicist awarded STFC Fellowship. 30 September 2020. Dr Matteo Agostini (UCL Physics &Astronomy) has been awarded an Ernest Rutherford Fellowship from the Science and Technology Council.
Researchers at UCL in collaboration with ISIS, the UK Neutron and Muon source, University of Oxford and the Japanese National Institute of Materials Science have now discovered the existence of helices constructed of the most unexpected components:
Six world-class scientists, including a Professor of Physics at UCL, have been awarded Royal Society Research Professorships, the Royal Society’s premier research awards.
The physics and astronomy communities have tried virtual initiatives in the past, in an attempt to bring research at the smallest and largest scales together. ... The UCL Department of Physics and Astronomy has been very supportive of this.
Congratulations to Dr Andy Bell on winning an ATLAS Thesis Award
Professor Ryan Nichol (UCL Physics &Astronomy) works in the field of experimental neutrino physics and has been working at CERN on the DUNE collaboration. ... Sebastian Jones, (UCL PhD candidate, Physics &Astronomy) said: “It’s a very exciting step
Physics &Astronomy) who has played a leading role in Higgs searches on both the DZero (Tevatron, Fermilab) and ATLAS (Large Hadron Collider, CERN) experiments over the past 16 years. ... regions where the Higgs boson is produced with a very high momentum,
Matthew Wing (UCL Physics &Astronomy), Principle Investigator of AWAKE-UK and the Deputy Spokesperson for the overall AWAKE collaboration. ... It has been five years since we first started tackling the problem of measuring our accelerated electrons,”
Two UCL Physics &Astronomy academics recognised with prestigious physics prizes. 12 July 2018. ... Professor Hiranya Peiris (UCL Physics &Astronomy) has been recognised with the Fred Hoyle Medal and Prize for furthering our understanding of the origin
11 June 2018. Physics &Astronomy’s Professor Mark Lancaster has been elected as co-spokesperson of Fermilab’s Muon g-2 experiment. ... UCL Physics &Astronomy’s Professor Mark Lancaster has been elected as co-spokesperson of Fermilab’s Muon g-2
Professor Ofer Lahav (UCL Physics &Astronomy), a co-founder of DES and co-Director of UCL's Centre for Doctoral Training Centre in Data Intensive Science added: "We see the remarkable
The Kathleen Lonsdale building houses the Earth Sciences Department as well as members of the Physics and Astronomy, Maths, and Chemistry Departments.
Professor Ruben Saakyan, outgoing SuperNEMO co-spokesperson from UCL Physics &Astronomy, said: “If you ask any theorist today about the most pressing questions in modern particle physics a likely answer will ... Professor David Waters, incoming
Professor Nikos Konstantinidis, UCL's Department of Physics and Astronomy will be co-directing the university's CDT, said: "We are delighted to be part of this exciting STFC initiative. ... UCL has a long-standing tradition of excellence in data
Professor Sarah (Sally) Price (UCL Chemistry), Professor Angus Silver (UCL Neuroscience, Physiology &Pharmacology), Professor Jennifer Thomas CBE (UCL Physics &Astronomy) and Professor Neil Burgess (UCL Institute of Neurology) are among 50
UCL Astrophysics, across the departments of Physics &Astronomy (UCL-P&A) and Space &Climate Physics at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory (UCL-MSSL), is one of the largest groups in the ... Professors Nikos Konstantinidis and Ofer Lahav from UCL
UCL visits Peking University and Chinese Academy of Sciences. 29 November 2016. In September, Professor Nikolaos Konstantinidis, Vice-Dean (International) for the UCL Mathematical &Physical Sciences Faculty, headed a visit to China to meet some of
4 million funding awarded to medical accelerators network. 30 October 2015. Cancer is a major health problem and it is the main cause of death between the ages of 45-65. Although significant progress has been made in the use of particle beams for
Prof Jon Butterworth, head of UCL Physics &Astronomy, has been shortlisted for this year's Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books.
Old lab instruments go on display. 6 March 2015. A display consisting of 16 items used in physics teaching at UCL in the 19th and 20th centuries has been completed on the first floor of the Physics building, outside the entrance to Lab 1 (east end).
This is usually called "wash-out". In this paper Frank Deppisch &Julia Harz (both UCL Physics &Astronomy) demonstrate that it is possible to draw conclusions from observations at the LHC on
Detecting dark matter. 14 April 2014. The kind of matter and energy we can see and touch - whether it is in the form of atoms and molecules, or heat and light, only forms a tiny proportion of the content of the Universe, only about 5%. Over a
Prof. Matthew Wing wins Humboldt Foundation prize. 7 April 2014. Prof. Matthew Wing has been commended with the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award. Conferred by the Humboldt Foundation, this award recognises "[s] cientists and scholars,
Videos from Brian Anderson's retirement party (sadly none from the JB afterwards) are now online
(courtesy of Tony) on youtube:
Derek's speech/slides,
Mark's "speech",
Brian's speech.