I caught the neutrino physics bug as an undergraduate student whilst on summer placement at CERN. One PhD, two post-doc positions and many years later and I am still studying these elusive particles. I split my research time between the SNOplus experiment in Canada, and the future Hyper-K and current T2K experiments in Japan.
When not 2km underground wielding giant spanners, I like to spend my time relaxing with my family or halfway up a rock-face.
Name: Jeanne Wilson
Occupation: Professor of Particle Physics, Kings College London
Chosen Specialized subject: Experimental Neutrino Physics
My work
The neutrino is a unique particle: its mass is tiny compared to the other fundamental particles, its interactions are so weak that billions pass through us each second with no effect, and perhaps most bizarrely, neutrinos exhibit a characteristic we call “oscillations” by which they change from one type to another.
