Dr. John Ellis

Biography

John Ellis currently holds the Clerk Maxwell Professorship in Theoretical Physics at King's College London. He obtained his PhD from Cambridge University in 1971 and has worked at notable institutions such as SLAC, Caltech, and CERN, where he served as the Theory Division Leader for six years. His research interests primarily focus on phenomenological aspects of elementary particle physics, as well as connections to astrophysics, cosmology, and quantum gravity. He is especially involved in the interpretation of results from new particle searches, studying how the Higgs boson was produced and discovered. Ellis is actively engaged in understanding the implications of the Higgs particle on potential new physics, including dark matter and supersymmetry. His research also encompasses future particle accelerators, including the Compact Linear Collider and other circular colliders, and he is known for promoting global collaboration in particle physics. Ellis has received several honors, including the Maxwell Medal and the Paul Dirac Prize, and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1985. His work spans predictions for collider experiments, the nature of dark matter, and the study of string theory models related to quantum gravity.

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