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
Phenomenology of a fluxed MSSM -: art. no. 30
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2005)
2005,
892
Requirements on collider data to match the precision of WMAP on supersymmetric dark matter
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2004)
2004,
421
Uncertainties in the Prediction of the Relic Density of Supersymmetric
Dark Matter
(2004)
SUSY Parameter Analysis at TeV and Planck Scales
– Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
(2004)
135,
107
Precise determination of the neutral Higgs boson masses in the MSSM
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2004)
8,
1045
Genetic Algorithms and Experimental Discrimination of SUSY Models
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2004)
2004,
1717
SUSY les Houches accord: Interfacing SUSY spectrum calculators, decay packages, and event generators
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2004)
2004,
851
R-parity violating minimal supergravity model -: art. no. 115002
– Physical Review D
(2004)
69,
115002
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.69.115002)
Phenomenology of twisted moduli in type-I string inspired models
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2004)
2004,
067
Resonant slepton production at the LHC in models with an ultralight gravitino
– Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics
(2004)
586,
373
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