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Ken Mimasu is a Lecturer and an Ernest Rutherford Fellow at the University of Southampton, specializing in collider phenomenology and effective field theories related to the Standard Model of particle physics. He completed his PhD in 2013 at the University of Southampton, and subsequently held postdoctoral positions at the University of Sussex, UCLouvain in Belgium with a Marie Sklodowska Curie Individual Fellowship, and at King's College London. In 2023, he was awarded the Ernest Rutherford Fellowship to pursue the research project "Maximising New Physics Reach at the LHC Using Effective Field Theories". His research focuses on addressing key challenges in understanding the Standard Model, such as the electroweak hierarchy problem and matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe, with a strong emphasis on developing analytical approaches to scattering amplitudes. Ken has contributed to global statistical analyses involving large datasets from high-energy physics experiments, providing precision predictions and phenomenological studies to enhance collider sensitivity to new physics. He is actively involved in research exploring extended scalar sectors and axion-like particles, aiming to enhance theoretical insight and experimental approaches in high-energy particle physics.
University of Southampton • Southampton
Joined as a Lecturer and Ernest Rutherford Fellow in the High Energy Physics group.