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In 2000, Robert Thorne was awarded the Royal Society Research Fellowship and elected to hold the position at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Beginning in 2001, he became the Director of Studies in Physics at St Catharine's College, where he continued to work on parton distribution functions (PDFs) and their implications in hadron collider physics, becoming the primary representative of the MRST group at international conferences. His individual work focused on heavy quarks and small-x physics, and he gave lectures on 'The Standard Model' in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. In April 2006, he transferred his Royal Society Fellowship to the High Energy Physics group at University College London (UCL) and began collaborating with Research Associate Graeme Watt on parton distributions. His research emphasizes the preparation for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, incorporating new data from various colliders including Tevatron and HERA. Thorne has produced significant work on MMHT 2014 parton distributions and the recent MSHT20 update in 2020, aiming for increased theoretical precision in PDF parameterization. He is a core member of the STFC Particle Physics Grants Panel and has participated in various advisory committees.
University College London, Dept Physics & Astronomy • London
Leading research in high energy physics and parton distribution functions.