Victoria Martin
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Born | Victoria Jane Martin |
Alma mater | University of Edinburgh (BSc, PhD) |
Awards | MacMillan Lecture (2013) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of Edinburgh Northwestern University CERN |
Thesis | A measurement of the CP violation parameter Re(e'/e) (2000) |
Doctoral advisor | Alan Walker Ian Knowles |
Website | www |
Victoria Jane Martin is a Scottish physicist who is Professor of Collider Physics at the University of Edinburgh. She works on the ATLAS experiment on the Higgs boson.
Early life and education
[edit]Martin studied mathematical physics at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1996.[1][2] She remained there for her postgraduate studies, working on CP violation on the NA48 experiment.[1] She completed her PhD thesis A measurement of the CP violation parameter Re(e'/e) in 2000.[3] During her PhD she visited CERN, where she enjoyed the diverse disciplines of people she worked with.[4] She was a student of Peter Higgs.[5][6][7]
Research and career
[edit]Martin spent five years as a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University. She returned to Edinburgh in 2005, where she was appointed a lecturer.[8] She is a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy.[9][10]
Martin works on the ATLAS experiment and Compact Linear Collider.[1][11] She has received significant funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council to support upgrades to the particle collider.[12] She is searching for the Higgs boson production, in association with top quarks.[1][13][14][15] She looks for how it couples to the fermions of the Standard Model.[16] She gave the 2013 MacMillan Lecture at the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland.[17][16] She took a sabbatical at CERN in 2015.[18] During this time, she delivered the Royal Institution lecture Big Bucks for Big Bosons: Should we still be paying for the Large Hadron Collider?.[19] In 2017 she took part in a British Council tour of India, talking about the Higgs boson.[20] Martin is the Chair of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) peer review panel and the theme leader for the Scottish Universities' Physics Alliance.[21] She is also involved in the teaching and administration of several courses at The University of Edinburgh.[22]
Martin is on the Board of Trustees of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the advisory board of Perspective Realism.[23][24] She took part in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.[25] She has taken part in several interviews with the BBC.[26]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Victoria Martin - Edinburgh Research Explorer". research.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
- ^ "RSSA 12th May 2014". rssa.org.uk. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
- ^ Martin, Victoria Jane (2005). A Measurement of the CP Violation Parameter Re(e'/e). inspirehep.net (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh. hdl:1842/12588. OCLC 606176121. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.657373.
- ^ "Interview with Victoria Martin: Professor of Collider Physics at University of Edinburgh". primoassociates.com. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
- ^ "Higgs boson prof 'would love honour'". Edinburgh News. Archived from the original on 2 October 2018. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
- ^ "Victoria Martin: Soon we'll be able to pinpoint that particle". Retrieved 1 October 2018.
- ^ "Victoria Martin". The Independent. Archived from the original on 17 August 2022. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
- ^ "Prof. Dr. Victoria Martin - AcademiaNet". academia-net.org. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
- ^ "YAS Members - Victoria Martin". youngacademyofscotland.org.uk. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
- ^ Quiz a Whiz with the RSE (12 February 2016), Victoria Martin on Being a Particle Physicist, retrieved 1 October 2018
- ^ "Victoria Martin, CLiC" (PDF). CERN. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
- ^ "UK RI Gateway Victoria Martin". UKRI. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
- ^ "Birmingham Particle Physics Seminar 16th May 2018". www.ep.ph.bham.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
- ^ ATLAS Collaboration (2018). "Observation of Higgs boson production in association with a top quark pair at the LHC with the ATLAS detector". Physics Letters B. 784: 173–191. arXiv:1806.00425. Bibcode:2018PhLB..784..173A. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2018.07.035. S2CID 119357386.
- ^ Abramowicz, H.; Tehrani, N. Alipour; Arominski, D.; Benhammou, Y.; Benoit, M.; Blaising, J.-J.; Boronat, M.; Borysov, O.; Bosley, R. R. (2019). "Top-quark physics at the CLIC electron-positron linear collider". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2019 (11): 003. arXiv:1807.02441. Bibcode:2019JHEP...11..003C. doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2019)003. S2CID 85505969.
- ^ a b IESIS (24 September 2015), Victoria Martin Higgs Boson IESIS The MacMillan Lecture, retrieved 1 October 2018
- ^ "'God Particle or God-damn Particle? Work at the Hadron Collider'" (PDF). IESIS. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
- ^ "Prof. Victoria Martin | PHYESTA". phyesta.supa.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
- ^ "Big bucks for big bosons: Should we still be paying for the Large Hadron Collider?". Retrieved 1 October 2018.
- ^ "Science and Beyond: Public Talks by Victoria Martin | British Council". britishcouncil.in. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
- ^ "PROF Victoria J Martin". www2.ph.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
- ^ "PROF Victoria J Martin". 2.ph.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
- ^ "International Advisory Board | Perspectival Realism". perspectivalrealism.org. April 2016. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
- ^ "RSE Scotland SCIO - The Royal Society of Edinburgh". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
- ^ "Prof. Victoria Martin – Big Bucks for Big Bosons – what's the point of the LHC". Edinburgh Skeptics Society. 8 July 2018. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
- ^ Nanjiani, Shereen. "BBC - Radio Scotland blog: Shereen Sunday Interview: Dr Victoria Martin". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 1 October 2018.