Victoria Martin
British professor of collider physics
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Victoria Jane Martin FRSE is a Scottish physicist who is Professor of Collider Physics at the University of Edinburgh. She works on the Higgs boson as part of the ATLAS experiment.
Northwestern University
CERN
Victoria Martin | |
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Victoria Martin at the CMS experiment at CERN | |
| 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 |
Early life and education
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
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]
Martin was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2024.[27]
