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Kevin Varvell is a Professor at the University of Sydney, with a focus on experimental particle physics. He obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Western Australia and completed a D.Phil at the University of Oxford. Varvell has held various roles in prestigious institutions including post-doctoral positions at the University of Birmingham and ANSTO in Sydney. He was an ARC Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sydney from 1997 to 2001 and has since converted to a teaching and research role. Varvell has been involved in significant research projects and experimental physics at renowned facilities like CERN and Fermilab, contributing to six international experiments. His work primarily encompasses neutrino physics, flavour physics involving B-mesons, and hadron collider physics. As the Director of the University of Sydney Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale from 2011 to 2021, he contributed to shaping Australia’s future collider physics program. His research interests include rare semi-leptonic decays of B-mesons and searching for new physics beyond the Standard Model. He collaborates with teams on projects like the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider and the Belle II experiment in Japan, aiming to understand the fundamental laws of nature.
University of Sydney • Sydney
Teaching and research position in particle physics.
ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale • Sydney
Led the Australian Node focused on high-energy particle physics research.
University of Sydney • Sydney
Research-focused role contributing to various particle physics experiments.
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