Jennifer Anne Thomas

Jenny Thomas
CBE FRS FInstP
Born Jennifer Anne Thomas
Alma mater
Scientific career
Institutions
Thesis A study of semi-leptonic decays of heavy quarks (1983)
Doctoral advisor Michael G. Bowler[1]
Website hep.ucl.ac.uk/~jthomas/

Jennifer Anne Thomas, CBE FRS FInstP, is a British physicist and professor at University College London.[2][3]

Education

She earned a Bachelor of Science degree with honours from Bedford College, University of London, in 1981. She received her PhD in particle physics from the University of Oxford in 1983 for research on semi-leptonic decays of heavy quarks supervised by Michael G. Bowler.[1][2]

Career and research

Thomas held a postdoctoral research positions at Imperial College and Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg from 1985 to 1985. She was a CERN fellow from 1985 to 1989 and worked there on the Time Projection Digitizer (TPC) for the ALEPH experiment. She was a Wissenschaflicher Angestellter at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich from 1989 to 1991. She then became a staff scientist at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory in Dallas, Texas. In 1994, she returned to Oxford as a research officer on the MINOS proposed experiment. She brought that experiment to University College London in 1997.[2] As of 2017 her work invesitgates on the physics of neutrinos, she is the co-spokesperson for the MINOS experiment and is a member of the NEMO-III and SuperNEMO experiments.[4][5]

Awards and honours

Thomas was awarded a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the 2011 Birthday Honours.[6] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.[7] She is also a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society.[2] She was the winner of the 2018 Institute of Physics Michael Faraday medal and prize.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 Thomas, Jennifer Anne (1983). A study of semi-leptonic decays of heavy quarks (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 53514253.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Thomas, Jennifer (2017). "Prof Jennifer Thomas". University College London. Retrieved 2017-05-13.
  3. ↑ "Jennifer Anne Thomas profile". INSPIRE-HEP.
  4. ↑ "Faces and Places: The Queen honours services to science". CERN Courier. cerncourier.com. 2011.
  5. ↑ Arnold, R.; Augier, C.; Baker, J.; Barabash, A. S.; Basharina-Freshville, A.; Blondel, S.; Bongrand, M.; Broudin-Bay, G.; Brudanin, V.; Caffrey, A. J.; Chapon, A.; Chauveau, E.; Durand, D.; Egorov, V.; Flack, R.; Garrido, X.; Grozier, J.; Guillon, B.; Hubert, Ph.; Hugon, C.; Jackson, C. M.; Jullian, S.; Kauer, M.; Klimenko, A.; Kochetov, O.; Konovalov, S. I.; Kovalenko, V.; Lalanne, D.; Lamhamdi, T.; Lang, K.; Liptak, Z.; Lutter, G.; Mamedov, F.; Marquet, Ch.; Martin-Albo, J.; Mauger, F.; Mott, J.; Nachab, A.; Nemchenok, I.; Nguyen, C. H.; Nova, F.; Novella, P.; Ohsumi, H.; Pahlka, R. B.; Perrot, F.; Piquemal, F.; Reyss, J. L.; Richards, B.; Ricol, J. S.; Saakyan, R.; Sarazin, X.; Simard, L.; Šimkovic, F.; Shitov, Yu.; Smolnikov, A.; Söldner-Rembold, S.; Štekl, I.; Suhonen, J.; Sutton, C. S.; Szklarz, G.; Thomas, J.; Timkin, V.; Torre, S.; Tretyak, V. I.; Umatov, V.; Vála, L.; Vanyushin, I.; Vasiliev, V.; Vorobel, V.; Vylov, Ts.; Zukauskas, A.; et al. (NEMO-3 Collaboration) (4 August 2011). "Measurement of the ββ Decay Half-Life of 130Te with the NEMO-3 Detector". Physical Review Letters. 107 (6): 062504. arXiv:1104.3716. Bibcode:2011PhRvL.107f2504A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.062504. PMID 21902318.
  6. ↑ "Queen's Birthday Honours List". Direct.gov.uk. 2011. Archived from the original on 7 September 2011.
  7. ↑ Anon (2017). "Professor Jennifer Thomas CBE FRS". London: royalsociety.org. Retrieved 2017-05-13.
  8. ↑ Physics, Institute of. "2018 Michael Faraday Medal and Prize". www.iop.org. Retrieved 2018-07-26.


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