Royal Society fellowship brings particle physicist to Sussex

Royal Society fellowship brings particle physicist to Sussex. A particle physics researcher will be joining the University of Sussex in October as one of just nine new Dorothy Hodgkin Fellows appointed by the Royal Society. The Society's prestigious Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship scheme is designed to help outstanding scientists and engineers at an early stage of their career to progress to permanent academic positions. It is aimed specifically at researchers who require a flexible working pattern and is particularly popular with female scientists. Dr Lily Asquith, who will take up her fellowship in the Department of Physics and Astronomy from October, completed her PhD in 2009 at University College London. Her doctoral research focused on the search for the Higgs boson - the subatomic particle that scientists say endows everything in the universe with mass. Proving the existence of the Higgs boson (detected for the first time in 2012) was one of the main goals of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) machine, located deep beneath the the Swiss-French border and designed to shed light on fundamental questions in physics.