Victoria Martin

Victoria Martin
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.ph.ed.ac.uk/people/victoria-martin

Victoria Jane Martin 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.

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]

References

1. "Victoria Martin - Edinburgh Research Explorer". research.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
2. "RSSA 12th May 2014". rssa.org.uk. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
3. 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.
4. "Interview with Victoria Martin: Professor of Collider Physics at University of Edinburgh". primoassociates.com. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
5. "Higgs boson prof 'would love honour'". Edinburgh News. Archived from the original on 2 October 2018. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
6. "Victoria Martin: Soon we'll be able to pinpoint that particle". Retrieved 1 October 2018.
7. "Victoria Martin". The Independent. Archived from the original on 17 August 2022. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
8. "Prof. Dr. Victoria Martin - AcademiaNet". academia-net.org. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
9. "YAS Members - Victoria Martin". youngacademyofscotland.org.uk. Retrieved 1 October 2018.^[permanent dead link‍]
10. Quiz a Whiz with the RSE (12 February 2016), Victoria Martin on Being a Particle Physicist, retrieved 1 October 2018
11. "Victoria Martin, CLiC" (PDF). CERN. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
12. "UK RI Gateway Victoria Martin". UKRI. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
13. "Birmingham Particle Physics Seminar 16th May 2018". www.ep.ph.bham.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. IESIS (24 September 2015), Victoria Martin Higgs Boson IESIS The MacMillan Lecture, retrieved 1 October 2018
17. "'God Particle or God-damn Particle? Work at the Hadron Collider'" (PDF). IESIS. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
18. "Prof. Victoria Martin | PHYESTA". phyesta.supa.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
19. "Big bucks for big bosons: Should we still be paying for the Large Hadron Collider?". Retrieved 1 October 2018.
20. "Science and Beyond: Public Talks by Victoria Martin | British Council". britishcouncil.in. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
21. "PROF Victoria J Martin". www2.ph.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
22. "PROF Victoria J Martin". 2.ph.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
23. "International Advisory Board | Perspectival Realism". perspectivalrealism.org. April 2016. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
24. "RSE Scotland SCIO - The Royal Society of Edinburgh". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
25. "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.
26. Nanjiani, Shereen. "BBC - Radio Scotland blog: Shereen Sunday Interview: Dr Victoria Martin". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
27. "Professor Victoria Martin". Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 21 January 2025.